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I was pretty confident after the demo was complete. The 3D models of spaceships on the screen would have taken weeks of painstaking work from an artist, but Autozord the AI had generated the colours and textures in seconds. None of it had any hint of originality, but who needs that luxury?

‘And how did the AI figure out how to move it?‘ asked one of the client’s executives, pointing to the generated spaceship blasting a digital asteroid.

‘Oh that’s just the default movement option.‘ I explained. ‘Autozord, make the TIE Fighter slower, and make it spin.’

‘Spinning is a good trick,‘ said one of the younger members of the management team. This was an oddly appropriate comment, given the rampant copyright infringement in both the prompt and operation of the system. I was hoping the client would either not care or not notice before the contract was signed.

Autozord the AI said ‘Updating Movement code'. In moments, the virtual aircraft was making virtual spins in virtual space, completing in moments the work a programmer might spend hours on. Of course a programmer would try to fix the bugs but the unwitting customers would only realize the difference after they paid up.

Most of the executives smiled, but the CEO was not impressed. ‘Listen this is all neat, but the the biggest problem our studio faces is marketing. How do we make our game stand out amongst the crowd?'

I opened my mouth to tell them to buy my conveniently priced advertising and search engine optimization services, but Autozord had other plans.

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