Do you care if AI is used?

I’d rather AI be used over a bunch of activist developer human created slop.

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"Clothing buyers outraged after finding out cotton was picked with machine instead of by hand"

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That's not a particularly apt comparison, in my opinion. How the cotton was picked wasn't the point; obtaining the physical cotton was the point.

Now, can one argue that having the game is the point, not the process of making it? Sure. But "the cotton" and "the game" aren't really the same thing. Cotton is cotton no matter how you pick it. The concern with AI is that the game isn't the game no matter how you make it. As always bears repeating: Artificial Intelligence isn't actually intelligent. It might be one day, but it sure as shite ain't now. All current "AI" can do is steal what already exists and recombine it in a different order. It can't create anything truly novel because it doesn't actually know what anything is.

Now, as I've said before, I 100% think AI has its place in gaming. No one needs to be making grass or tree or rock or whatever textures by hand anymore. Those things exist in real life. Just let AI copy it. It's also potentially useful for things like ambient dialogue.

But for core gameplay, narrative, art direction, etc? Unless we just want to play derivative slop for the rest of our lives, humans need to be front and center on those items, in my opinion.

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I’d rather AI be used over a bunch of activist developer human created slop.

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Ding ding ding.

These woke leftists don't realize the only thing they're advocating for is their own unemployment.

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Where did this “AI is going to crush woke” bit come from?

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Definitely didn’t say that but thanks for jumping to conclusions. I’m simply saying that if folks can make a great game with AI I’ll play it and play it over some bloated arse “AAA” game that was done the “traditional way.” Not because of the developers politics or whatever but because it’s done better.

I’d definitely think that AI would allow MANY studios, some quite small to create games easier than in the past and with less need for bloat and expense. A lot of these companies will actually be in the business of making the best games they can make without any frills.

I’d also assume that regardless of persons beliefs that due to the AI trimming a lot of the fat those left standing will likely have to focus on the task of making more enjoyable games.

At the end of the day there won’t be the hive for the hive mind to feed off of.

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I don’t give a frick about woke games. I don’t play them anyway as most of them are shite and I don’t have a lot of bandwidth for many games anyway. I’m saying if a game is better and made with AI in a non traditional way I’ll play it because it’s better than the bloated mess the big developer came up with (some of which are “woke).

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Then why not say “big developer” in your first post? Why “activist developer”? If the woke ain’t the focus, why make it the focus?

Using AI to help speed up automating mundane, time consuming tasks is a great use of it.

Using it to auto-generate core aspects of the game itself (like level design or skill trees or shite like that) would be absolutely awful.

There's no way in hell AI at it's current state could generate something interesting and cohesive. Maybe one day but not now and not for awhile.

Plus, an AI is never going to create anything truly new, that's not what they do. They are basically just really sophisicated pattern recongition/auto completers. If you did have an advanced AI that could generate a full game from scratch and you said "generate me a FromSoft style Soulslike game" or something, you are going to get a weird synthetic mashup of every single "soulslike" game it's been trained on.

The talk about AGI or actually creativity in AI is still way, way away, if ever. It's mostly just smoke blowing by people selling AI shite.

Regardless, AI is a powerful tool and all software development will be using it extensively in many capacities going forward, games included.

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Why are y’all under the impression that woke as frick devs won’t use AI to churn out more woke as frick games?

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I am sure they already are.

Nobody is buying them

Wokie goes hungry

The market works

AI can bring us a completely "new" way games are made and played. Speeding up development is an obvious product of AI, allowing indie developers to act like AAA developers. The quantity of quality games should increase, as well as decrease development cost. Will this glut of games be a good thing, time will tell. It will be similar to the migration of people looking forward to a couple of tentpole movies a year, to having plenty of entertainment on Youtube and no need to go to the theater.

Open world, will actually mean "open world". Currently open world games are limited to development limitations. AI can expand that to true real-time procedural drawn worlds with greater detail. Starfield would be an example where this could change everything. Play got stale, as all the worlds basically felt the same. AI could use the knowledge of everyone known sci-fi story written, movie made and known science to constantly expand the game.

NPCs can have an actual life. Beloved NPCs are very limited at the end of the day, however with AI their roles can expand or even change. Everyone's interactions could be unique to their game only and subsequent replays could have an entire different experience. POCs in certain game could be feeding off real time world events, either within the game ecosystem or real world.

AI will make gaming better and should be embraced.

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I care about lazy and blatant AI use like when you see artwork in an advertisement and the character has 6 fingers.

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This shouldn't be a thing anymore. I can generate a pretty realistic pic of people with the proper number of fingers on my pc alone using Comfy.