AirSim co-creator: we used to pay thousands of dollars to Unreal designers for training environments
sytelus · x · 2026-09-05
Reacting to AI-generated training environments, AirSim co-creator sytelus recalls they built AirSim precisely for this purpose — and used to pay Unreal level designers thousands of dollars to create similar environments, underscoring how much generative AI has changed the economics of simulation.
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