{"id":230184,"date":"2026-01-30T21:07:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/gdcs-survey-says-over-50-of-game-devs-see-gen-ai-as-harmful"},"modified":"2026-01-30T21:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:07:44","slug":"gdcs-survey-says-over-50-of-game-devs-see-gen-ai-as-harmful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/gdcs-survey-says-over-50-of-game-devs-see-gen-ai-as-harmful","title":{"rendered":"GDC\u2019s Survey Says Over 50% Of Game Devs See Gen AI As Harmful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gdcs-survey-says-over-50-of-game-devs-see-gen-ai-as-harmful.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each year, thousands of professionals contribute to GDC\u2019s State of the Game Industry report, offering studios, investors, and creators a snapshot of where the market is headed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/80.lv\/articles\/the-game-industry-s-annual-pulse-check-the-state-of-the-game-industry-2026-survey-is-now-open\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This year\u2019s survey<\/a> gathered responses from more than 2,300 game industry professionals, including developers, producers, marketers, executives, and investors, covering topics such as <a href=\"https:\/\/80.lv\/articles\/survey-says-that-33-of-us-video-game-industry-workers-were-laid-off-over-last-2-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">layoffs<\/a>, diversity and inclusion, business models, and generative AI. Just over half of respondents were based in the United States, with a disproportionate share coming from North America and Western Europe, meaning the survey is not fully representative of the global industry.<\/p>\n<p>However, some of these findings may reflect broader global trends. You can feel the mood shifting around AI, with its use increasingly sparking backlash whenever it comes up, from <a href=\"https:\/\/80.lv\/articles\/larian-responds-to-backlash-over-generative-ai-divinity-won-t-be-released-with-any-ai-components\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 controversies<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/80.lv\/articles\/this-chrome-extension-changes-all-mentions-of-microsoft-to-microslop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cMicroslop\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, thousands of professionals contribute to GDC\u2019s State of the Game Industry report, offering studios, investors, and creators a snapshot of where the market is headed. This year\u2019s survey gathered responses from more than 2,300 game industry professionals, including developers, producers, marketers, executives, and investors, covering topics such as layoffs, diversity and inclusion, business [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1509,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}