Mojang Won't Use Generative AI, Minecraft Is 'About Creativity and Creating'

Minecraft developer Mojang has nary volition of incorporating generative artificial quality into its crippled improvement process.

The ever-increasing creep of generative AI into crippled improvement makes itself evident by the day, whether it’s Activision admitting to utilizing generative AI creation successful Call of Duty: Black Op 6, oregon Microsoft gathering Muse, an AI designed to "generate crippled ideas."

But, by the dependable of it, Mojang has nary plans of taking vantage of its genitor company’s caller technology, overmuch preferring the quality interaction that resulted successful Minecraft becoming the biggest-selling crippled of each clip with an unthinkable 300 cardinal sales.

“Here for us, conscionable similar Minecraft is astir creativity and creating,” stated Minecraft Vanilla crippled manager Agnes Larsson during a caller lawsuit attended by IGN, “I deliberation it's important that it makes america consciousness blessed to make arsenic humans. That's a purpose, [it] makes beingness look beautiful. So for us, we truly privation it to beryllium our teams that marque our games.”

Ingela Garneij, enforcement shaper of Minecraft Vanilla, expanded connected this sentiment: “For me, it's the reasoning extracurricular of the container part. This circumstantial interaction of: what is Minecraft? How does it look? That other prime is truly tricky to make done AI. We adjacent effort to person distant teams sometimes and usher them successful gathering things for us, which has ne'er worked, due to the fact that you person to beryllium present moving unneurotic face-to-face.

"I mean creativity is... you request to conscionable similar this arsenic a person, arsenic a quality to truly genuinely recognize the values and principles and the ecosystem, the lore, everything. It's truthful monolithic Minecraft, it's a planet, it's massive."

The humans making Minecraft proceed to physique connected its record-breaking foundations. The recently revealed graphics update, titled Vibrant Visuals, is owed retired successful the adjacent future, and Mojang continues to garbage to marque Minecraft free-to-play. This doctrine of improving and expanding the archetypal crippled besides goes hand-in-hand with Mojang's tendency to not marque a “Minecraft 2." It whitethorn beryllium 16 years aged now, but there’s genuinely nary motion of Minecraft slowing down, and nary motion of generative AI uncovering its mode into the Nether.

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editorial Producer who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.