Ubisoft admits that it is using an AI tool to help developers create game dialogue.

The Assassin's Creed publisher, which also brought us games like Far Cry, says that the AI-powered Ghostwriter tool should help scriptwriters save some time. It looks like AI is slowly taking over game development as well.

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Ubisoft Uses AI to Help Write Game Dialogue

According to Kotaku's report, the publisher of games like Ghost Recon and Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft is now diving into AI tools to help develop its future games. The gaming firm confirmed that it is using artificial intelligence to help write the dialogue of its future titles.

The gaming giant introduced its all-new Ubisoft Ghostwriter, which is essentially an AI tool that seeks to lend a helping hand to its game scriptwriters.

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For now, the Assassin's Creed publisher is using the AI-powered tool to help its writers produce scripts for its non-player character or NPC. The Ghostwrite is now responsible for creating the first draft for the dialogue of these characters.

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How Does Ubisoft Ghostwriter AI Tool Work

Ubisoft explains that Ghostwrite is an "AI tool developed in-house that aims to support our scriptwriters by generating the first draft of our NPC barks." These are the phases and sounds that these characters create when players interact with them while playing the game.

The gaming firm further touts that its AI tool should help its scriptwriters save time.

Game Spot notes that writers have to create a character first. And from there, they need to input the situation or event into the Ghostwriter AI tool. Then, it provides various barks for NPCs.

They could still edit these dialogues as they are considered first drafts.

Besides saving time, the Far Cry publisher says that the AI tool should give its writers more "freedom to work on grames' narrative, characters, and cutscenes."

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However, not all are impressed with the direction that Ubisoft is taking.

Video Game Chronicles reports that a Sony Santa Monica, Alanah Pearce, took to Twitter to express her two cents on the AI-powered scriptwriting tool.

Pearce says that "having to edit AI-generated scripts/dialogue sounds far more time-consuming than just writing my own temp lines."

Another Twitter user says that gaming firms should instead "support actual working scriptwriters."

With the growing popularity of ChatGPT, some were impressed with the AI chatbot, while others wondered how it would shape the future of how we do things. This time, it looks like AI is also set to take over game development.

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