Jacob Navok

CEO & Emmy-Award Winner, Genvid. Previously 社長付 (President's Office) at Square Enix Holdings.

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

Taps the sign from 2023: https://t.co/QDv0qSYxQ7

[Pigeon @PigeonGoGaming]

Be Sqaure Enix:

> Drop PlayStation exclusivity
> It fixes the entire company

Lmao

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

@JustTeddii shockwaves

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

What is the anti-AI position in the case of a voice actor who can't say the lines correctly due to health issues? Does this get a Steam scarlet letter too?

[Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo]

NEW: For The Witcher 3’s next expansion, CD Projekt is working with Geralt’s original Polish voice actor and an AI company to record and tweak his in-game voice

CDPR calls it a “special case” due to Jacek Rozenek's health issues since the original game

https://t.co/EEqd0g0TY7

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

This situation appears to be one where individual judges rather than the organization have decided that if you don't match with their position on labor practices your product isn't culturally significant.

I say labor practices because artistic and cultural merit should be a question of the finished frames rather than the tools used to make the frames, but here is being repositioned toward a solidarity movement.

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

@Shuvlarse Yes, that was @TimSweeneyEpic's point about Valve's AI disclosures harming developers two weeks ago.

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

This is one of the most insufferable pieces Kotaku has written in a while and that is saying something.

Here is apparently how these journalists talk on their own Slacks: about personal moral judgements and shame, which is apparently what games journalism has devolved into- activism (we will use our bully pulpit) toward pressuring people into agreeing with their own political views.

This article is everything that Youtubers had been complaining about games journalism doing for years, distilled into a single piece.

It has choice quotes like about how they believe developers should cater to their whims, beliefs, and be forgiven by them, and those who do not comply should be shamed:

"I don’t think we do that without deploying shame to some degree."

"I don’t think we solve that problem by not talking about it and by not shaming it. I reiterate that I am really upset and betrayed by this"

"Or we could attempt to exert more power over that if developers allow us to make that choice."

"And I’m saying if, because of the structures they’re forced into, devs are required to use AI in the process of their development, I can understand and possibly forgive its use."

"This is why I think that if we don’t set a very clear expectation of no AI use, it will just continue to seep into everything even more and more. So yes, that means putting pressure on Unity to not build it into their tools, and if they continue to do so, it means pressuring devs not to use Unity... We have to tell them that’s not gonna fly."

[Kotaku @Kotaku]

The reveal that Big Walk used AI for "under 0.1%" of its code has caused a big blowup among fans, developers, and game award judges.

Where do people draw the line on genAI in gaming, and how did a 2026 GOTY indie darling become ground zero for the debate?

We broke down the messy discussion:

https://t.co/DayHRWp2w2

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

If 99.9% of the stuff people are playing and using have AI, why do we have to walk around on eggshells to please a bunch of nutters?

[lloyd @littlerootlodge]

The worst part about this Big Walk thing is how this will unironically just cause every game dev to lie more. As someone working in the software development field i can say that 99.9% of the stuff you are currently playing/using has used AI during development. It's just

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

taken from https://t.co/4b1IpyYjJo

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

A short video explanation.

[Phill Snerds @PhillSnerds]

I think some people fail to realize how probability works. For example, you have roughly a 1 in 150 chance to pull a Sprite Gizmo. That does not mean you will get a Sprite Gizmo in 150 chests.

Think of probability like walking into a room with 150 chests. You pick a random chest, you leave the room, someone comes in and adds a new one to replace the one you took, and shuffles them all again. The odds reset to 1 in 150, it doesn't go down to 1 in 149.

I'm hoping this is a good analogy to help some people understand the odds of finding the Pirate Shop Token. 🪎

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

Main stream media held their nose at the notion that China was financing anti-AI/anti-Datacenter fervor.

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

GUYS HOLY FUCKING SHIT. It is a confirmed China op through PSL. What are we doing!!!!!

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

@JustTeddii shockwaves

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

@wolfejosh I think about this all the time.

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

@davekalina Precisely.

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

Young progressives have a similar problem to academics in the Humanities. In the Humanities, all the big fields had their major revelations by previous generations of professors. Since you have to push the field forward to get somewhere, you have to go increasingly niche to find something you can make your own.

Similarly, many of the major progressive fields of the previous century were won. Civil rights, gay marriage, etc. To make your mark as a young progressive you have to find a movement.

Stopping datacenters from being built is easier than making something new happen.

And so we have it. Ayn Rand's nightmare come to life.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Maryland activist helps block a $5B AI data center planned for the site of an abandoned shopping mall that closed 24 years ago, after gathering over 25,000 signatures.

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

@KyleBlanchard_ correct

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

@mikearkin apologies

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

@sbichenko That'll be the day!

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

@mikearkin Correct, it is irrational.

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

If the IGF jurors want to be consistent then the 2028 awards:

1. Cannot be awarded to any game built with Unreal (or, I suspect, Unity, whom I am sure is also using Claude code in its dev) or Roblox or built on a Linux machine (whose kernel is now built with AI)

2. Cannot be awarded to any game where someone did a Google search result whose information was used by the game

3. Cannot be run with Nvidia drivers, given most of those drivers at this point have AI-developed code powering them

The list goes on. The hypocrisy is real.

The virtue signaling must continue until morale improves.

[Aftermath @Aftermath_site]

Big Walk used AI in 'the final stretch' of development, kicking off intense awards debate:

https://t.co/Pf9Zn5Tr0r

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

@iveytron The creators are a bunch of BDS supporting nazis so best to return.

[Jacob Navok @JNavok]

@wolfejosh It works and there is an entire political party in the United States where it has become normalized.