I also not entirely against Ai, if its ethically correct and used wisely without slop. I am looking forward for 2 major improvements in the future:

• 1. not important throw away NPCs in RPGs with some (local) Ai support when talking to them, this is already explored, and
• 2. multiplayer enemies with advanced Ai acting exactly like humans, with a human vision, reaction and thinking, this would make mulitplayer games possible to play offline without servers, and I even envision that we can download “training” data of other players such as friends or professional celebrities

Not to mention (as you mentioned already) for development. The problem is, the current industry uses Ai reckless, producing slop, and using stolen training data. Also agreed, please don’t create games their story, main plot and gameplay entirely by Ai…