But the story behind the game is curious, and indicative of larger tensions that will only become more visible within the space.
This Girl Does Not Exist is the product of a married couple, one of whom spoke to Kotaku via Discord for this story.Not having to make art from the ground up does mean things move quicker, but since This Girl Does Not Exist was a dating game, it needed multiple attractive, persistent characters for the player to romance.
“If I would do a whole AI game again,” she mused, “I would maybe try to tell people only after they finish the game and see what would the reactions be, as I think with This Girl, maybe people had prejudices up front.”