Comments on: Developers of AI-powered driving game take out loan to keep Steam demo running after surge in players pushes AI costs past $1,000 a day https://automaton-media.com/en/news/developers-of-ai-powered-driving-game-take-out-loan-to-keep-steam-demo-running-after-surge-in-players-pushes-ai-costs-past-1000-a-day/ AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo. Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:25:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Memphis https://automaton-media.com/en/news/developers-of-ai-powered-driving-game-take-out-loan-to-keep-steam-demo-running-after-surge-in-players-pushes-ai-costs-past-1000-a-day/#comment-9835 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:25:08 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=73667#comment-9835 Why not just train your own model and ship it with the game? It is not a huge task. Not to mention it gives you more control of responses. Is it because then technically people can easy nake it say bad things? You’re selling an AI mario party mini game, who cares? Your game wouldn’t last long enough for that to effect you. But you also wouldn’t be in debt.

]]> By: Tom https://automaton-media.com/en/news/developers-of-ai-powered-driving-game-take-out-loan-to-keep-steam-demo-running-after-surge-in-players-pushes-ai-costs-past-1000-a-day/#comment-9834 Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:03:16 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=73667#comment-9834 In reply to Lol.

Reach out to Onigoki on steam. Why on earth, beyond marketing, would you use AI for this, instead of just using AI to generate a huge response library based on keywords and related fallbacks.
Smh

]]> By: Hahahaha https://automaton-media.com/en/news/developers-of-ai-powered-driving-game-take-out-loan-to-keep-steam-demo-running-after-surge-in-players-pushes-ai-costs-past-1000-a-day/#comment-9833 Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:09:22 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=73667#comment-9833 So. Wait till it’s big games with a.i in it and millions playing… As big names are trying it.

]]> By: Lol https://automaton-media.com/en/news/developers-of-ai-powered-driving-game-take-out-loan-to-keep-steam-demo-running-after-surge-in-players-pushes-ai-costs-past-1000-a-day/#comment-9825 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:58:27 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=73667#comment-9825 It’s like the most predictable outcome for a game or app that uses ai without charging for the feature. Let’s use ai for this, and not charge players for the usage!
I’m hoping at least for the demo they set a usage rate limit, and would have to write it off as marketing expense.

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