Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser voiced strong reservations about AI's role in creativity, questioning the
qualifications of its proponents. He believes AI cannot replicate genuine human creativity and warned that an internet
saturated with AI-generated content could become unreliable, drawing a parallel to mad cow disease. Houser promoted his
new book, which explores AI's potential for disturbing outcomes.
Rockstar Games co-founder Dan Houser voiced strong reservations about AI's role in creativity, questioning the
qualifications of its proponents. He believes AI cannot replicate genuine human creativity and warned that an internet
saturated with AI-generated content could become unreliable, drawing a parallel to mad cow disease. Houser promoted his
new book, which explores AI's potential for disturbing outcomes.
Rockstar co-founder and key writer for the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series expressed strong concerns about the use of
artificial intelligence (AI) in creative work. In an interview with Virgin Radio UK (as reviewed by 80DB), Houser said,
“Some of these people trying to define the future of humanity, creativity, or whatever it is using AI are not the most
humane or creative people." When asked if AI could fully replace human creativity, Houser agreed that it could not. He
added that the people pushing generative AI may not be the most qualified in the field. He noted, "They're sort of
saying 'we're better at being human than you are', and it's obviously not true. One of the other things we're trying to
capture is that humanity is being pulled in a direction by a certain group of people who maybe aren't fully rounded
humans." At the radio show, Houser was promoting his new book, A Better Paradise Volume One: An Aftermath, which tells
the story of a video game project gone wrong when its AI produces disturbing, overly powerful results."Humanity is being
pulled in a direction by a certain group of people, who maybe aren't fully-rounded humans," Houser added.
GTA maker Rockstar founder compares AI to mad cow disease
Apart from this, Houser also thinks that AI will "eventually eat itself" because of how it works. He explained that when
AI searches and collects information from the internet, which is then filled with content generated by AI, the web will
become unreliable.“I can't see how the information gets better if they're already running out of data. It will do some
task brilliantly, but it's not going to do every task brilliantly,” Houser predicted. Moreover, Houser said that while
some parts of AI are impressive, the way it fills the internet with content can be compared to mad cow disease. He added
that we are being told it's a revolutionary technology, but "to make it a perfect simulation of something in the real
world, is very, very hard."“As far as I understand it—which is really superficial—the models scour the internet for
information, but the internet's going to get more and more full of information made by the models. So it's sort of like
when we fed cows with cows and got mad cow disease,” Houser claimed.