Blizzard Asked ChatGPT For Next WoW Expansion And It Gave A Horrible Answer
World of Warcraft's director isn't worried about AI replacing developers.
By Demi Williams on
World of Warcraft director Ion Hazzikostas has said that he isn't worried about AI potentially replacing him after using ChatGPT and receiving a bad answer as to what the next expansion should be.
In a recent interview with IGN, Hazzikostas discussed the latest Dragonflight patch, Embers of Neltharion, and spoke about the recent surge of AI tools in creative spaces. When the topic of the AI chatbot ChatGPT came up, the director said that when he first gained access, he tested it out and asked the tool what the next World of Warcraft expansion should be about.
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«I kid you not, the number one prompt it returned to me… was 'Return to the Shadowlands,'» Hazzikostas said. «So I feel like I have pretty good job security, not too worried about ChatGPT replacing me anytime soon.»
Hazzikostas and World of Warcraft executive producer Holly Longdale continued to discuss the use of AI, with the director confirming that for years, aspects of the MMO's art pipeline have been using machine learning. Hazzikostas said that it's «just automating really arduous, painful tasks like fitting helms around Blood Elf ears and so forth, where it's more just, let's free up some time so that our really talented artists can make more amazing creative art instead of doing that fiddly work.»
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