Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo "disgusting"

> Sweeney wrote in a follow-up post on X. "But competition will ultimately lead to companies producing the best work they’re capable of given the new tools, and that tends to mean more jobs."

Genuinely wondering: have they heard of enshittification? And would they say that competition is leading e.g. Disney to produce the best work they're capable of? Disney is re-making old classics (like Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, Aladdin, Mulan) as worse versions just because it brings money. Not convinced it creates more jobs, but it most definitely isn't the best work they're capable of.

Software is noticeably getting worse every year, I'm actually having a hard time finding companies that produce the best work they're capable of because of competition.

> And Carmack closed with this: "Will there be more or less game developer jobs? That is an open question. It could go the way of farming, where labor-saving technology allow a tiny fraction of the previous workforce to satisfy everyone, or it could be like social media, where creative entrepreneurship has flourished at many different scales. Regardless, “don’t use power tools because they take people’s jobs” is not a winning strategy."

So he gives an example where it removed jobs (which is generally a bad thing) and compensates by giving an example where it created jobs (which is the optimistic one), right? And his optimistic example is... social media? "It has created a completely toxic industry that is ruining the life of many, but look, it created jobs, that's what matters".

Let's hope for the best then! Let's hope that AI creates a lot of job by making the world a worse place, just like social media did! /s