Surveilling the gamers: Privacy impacts of the video game industry

The Ethics of AI in Games

“…Although ethical frameworks have been developed to provide guidance, the lack of specificity often leads to a small scale of adoption. If we look at the core issue of transparency, which is also often required for the assessment of other components of AI trustworthiness, we find that both affective computing and games applications are lagging behind [51]. This is true despite the issue of transparency being propped up by more robust legal frameworks than many other components of ethical AI.…”

“…More often than not, users are unaware of the data collected and inferred by algorithms. As Kröger points out, data collection in games is generally made invisible to the players as it is "woven into a game's environment" [51]. Given this opaqueness and a blasé attitude of users towards-what they perceive as-anonymous play, it is questionable to which extent regulations such as the aforementioned GDPR could reasonably be upheld.…”

“…This issue is even more complex in closed ecosystems that can facilitate cocreation with AI designers. As discussed earlier in Section II, affective computing applications face challenges addressing these questions under the current regulatory frameworks [51], [53], [54]. Even though users should have (at very least) rights to have control over their own data, to portray themselves accurately, to be forgotten [104], and to be self-determined, in reality, information inferred from big data is often exempt from the same legal protection afforded to first-hand personal data [31].…”