{"id":875791,"date":"2026-08-29T12:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T12:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/875791\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T12:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T12:24:18","slug":"after-ai-backlash-assassins-creed-creator-says-1666-amsterdam-wont-be-using-any-ai-anymore-and-only-used-it-in-conception-and-pre-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/875791\/","title":{"rendered":"After AI backlash, Assassin’s Creed creator says 1666: Amsterdam “won’t be using any AI anymore” and only used it “in conception and pre-production”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Assassin’s Creed godfather Patrice D\u00e9silets seemed to have conjured perfection with his new studio Panache’s witchy mystery game 1666: Amsterdam, but then the AI accusations came and turned out to be true<\/a>. Flowers wilted, goats died in their pens, and worst of all, I think many people revoked their Steam wishlist button.<\/p>\n

Panache has since made a commitment to removing AI from 1666: Amsterdam before making it playable \u2013 which it now is, you can pick up 1666: Amsterdam in Early Access<\/a> \u2013 but one rarely recovers from a full burning at the stake. To make the barbecue worse, D\u00e9silets’ comments at a preview event attended by GamesRadar+ were seemingly taken out of context by recent reports<\/a> saying the 1666: Amsterdam team used so much AI on the project, they forgot what was human. So, at Gamescom<\/a> 2026 GamesRadar+ asked D\u00e9silets for hopefully the last time \u2013 can he clarify 1666: Amsterdam’s current relationship to generative AI technology?<\/p>\n

“Yes, I was a bit [thrown]” by those reports, says D\u00e9silets. “Yes, we use some AI in the process, mostly at the beginning,” he continues, “in conception and pre-production. It’s been totally removed, and we won’t be using any AI anymore.”<\/p>\n

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Before I’d heard anything about Panache’s disappointing AI usage, 1666: Amsterdam was the first original IP attached to a big name like D\u00e9silets that I was excited about since\u2026 maybe 2012, when Lollipop Chainsaw came out. You see, I appreciate games about beautiful blonde women being agents of the underworld.<\/p>\n

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So I was looking forward to experiencing 1666: Amsterdam’s story of the demon hunter Noa, who uses sorcery to get her way \u2013 and her playable cat friend, who’s actually a guy from 1999 that got tricked into doing sex magic. It sounds like a darkly feminine, and darkly funny, return to vintage Assassin’s Creed, where 300 years of history are separated by only an unlocked gate.<\/p>\n

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I still want to play that game, which sounds unique for the AA industry and like a candlelit break from the bikinis-and-tequila state of mind the world will be in with GTA 6<\/a>. It’s just that, for me, 1666: Amsterdam will always have the stain of AI on it like cigarette smoke in the ceiling. At the same time, I want to support female character-driven games that do something different than hand me a laser gun or greatsword again, which is also what 1666: Amsterdam accomplishes \u2013 and the real way it embodies progress. I’m torn. What is my moral obligation?<\/p>\n

OK, 1666: Amsterdam. Take my Steam wishlist back while I decide.<\/p>\n

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1666 Amsterdam feels like the Assassin’s Creed game that never was, and fighting witch hunters with my time-traveling familiar left me hungry for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Assassin’s Creed godfather Patrice D\u00e9silets seemed to have conjured perfection with his new studio Panache’s witchy mystery game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-875791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}