Last month, Roblox outlined its vision for AI-assisted content creation, imagining a future where Generative AI could help users create code, 3D models and more with little more than text prompts.

Its AI tools do seem genuinely useful; I’ve always wanted to make a video game, even though I don’t know how, and the Roblox Assistant seems like something that could at least help me get started.

Roblox is a good company to experiment with the technology, Togelius says, because its users are creators and it’s something of an upstart. But ultimately, he says, more use of AI will require ...