aceAs AI floods our culture, here’s why we must protect human storytelling in games
A few days ago, I clicked a button on my phone to send funds to a company in Singapore and so took ownership of the video game I co-created and am lead writer for: Zombies, Run! I am a novelist, I wrote the bestselling, award-winning The Power, which was turned into an Amazon Prime TV series starring Toni Collette. What on earth am I doing buying a games company? Well. First of all. Zombies, Run! is special. It’s special to me – the game started as a Kickstarter and the community that grew up around it has always b
Game studios attempting to replace human writers with AI large language models risks losing human storytelling in games.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2025-12-10
- Peer-reviewedJournal of Big Data2023-05-28
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-0076, v3: “As AI floods our culture, here’s why we must protect human storytelling in games.” Truvace, 2026-09-19. /record/TRV-2026-0076 (accessed at citation time). sha256 0974dbb98ed3b3c7…
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