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Valve Is Experimenting With GenAI To Help With Situational Dialogue, Half-Life 2 Writer Says

Generative AI is "pretty bad" at creative writing, but it still could have a useful application for games, Erik Wolpaw says.

Half-Life 2 writer Erik Wolpaw says some people at Valve are looking at AI tools, but he's not "worried about AI taking over creative writing" anytime soon

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