Exactly. If we thought the companies would fold in AI thoughtfully as one tool of many for game creators to consider when implementing their vision I doubt people would be negative. As it stands we trust companies to continue doing what they’re doing: forcing workers to incorporate AI into their workflow because they’re rich friends at google/meta/openAI really really need the technology to succeed to make back anything on their investment even though the profit step still reads ??? in their master plan anyway.
mrmaplebar@fedia.io 23 hours ago
We were told that games were "art", and that this new "creative" medium that we grew up with really mattered. Many of us (gamers and gamedevs alike) happy agreed...
But where is the artistry in outsourcing your assets to the big tech slop machine? What is creative about outsourcing your design, code and storytelling to an LLM?
Is it easy? Sure... Quick? Maybe... Cheap? For now, while big tech is happy to prop it up with other people's money.
But it's not cool and it's not "art". Like every piss filtered Studio Ghibli knockoff, there's no artistry or creativity in it whatsoever. (They know that too, which is why companies are trying to hide or understate their use of AI.)
I just hope that they aren't naively expecting people to pay full price, or even at all, for AI slop games.
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 22 hours ago
mrmaplebar@fedia.io 22 hours ago
To be perfectly honest, I'd still be against it as long as it is trained on the stolen work of regular people.
Not only is it devoid of artistry and creativity, generative AI as it is today is cultural exploitation and plagiarism on an unprecedented industrial scale. It's incredibly unethical on top of being slop.
GammaGames@beehaw.org 20 hours ago
Funnily enough, the Arc Raiders team “did it right” like this and still got shit. They paid artists and made special models to pre-generate some voice clips, none of it is used at runtime, and people were still upset.
The well is beyond poisoned at this point.
nullpotential@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
That’s still not “right”. Just because some voice actors foolishly agreed to it. I don’t want to hear pregenerated voices I want to hear performances.
GammaGames@beehaw.org 1 hour ago
That would be why I used the phrase in quotes, I don’t agree with it
etchinghillside@reddthat.com 18 hours ago
Regardless of AI – capitalism doesn’t care if it’s “art”.
titanicx@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
It’s not cheap. McDonald’s said that their recent AI flop commercial cost more to produce then if it was made by human interaction.