David Baszucki responds to industry concerns that generative AI will displace creative labor and depress game developer earnings.
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Baszucki: Roblox believes it will achieve photorealism
“We believe we're gonna get to photoreal.”
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Baszucki: Roblox will develop the best AI safety tech across text and voice
“Like I believe we will end up with the best AI tech for text, for voice, maybe for video, doing a wide range of safety things, either monitoring for critical harms, Flagging, adjusting, all of that.”
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Older people will eventually attend church and work on Roblox
“Someday older people are going to go to church on the platform. Older people are going to work together on the platform. Older people are going to do other things.”
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Roblox's global infrastructure costs less than one cent per user hourly
“Like all of Roblox runs for less than a penny an hour. For every person around the world.”
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AI acceleration will turn Roblox game creation into mass-market consumption
“And I would say the good news is that vision may actually return, because I do think over time with AI acceleration, And all of the things we're working on, just like maybe in the very early days of video or YouTube was mostly consumptive. There was a little b…”
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Raw infrastructure performance drives platform growth better than complex features
“The features our creators need are boring and purely performance-based, and we have a saying in the company, like performance is a growth feature, and, you know, we put an enormous amount of work on raw performance features, scale features, those kind of thing…”