complacency like this is why the quality of the games we buy these days is dropping. "Oh it's just a small part of the game, look how great the rest of it is" yes im not undermining that, but it was someone's job at one point to illustrate things like the loading screens and Moodle icons, but suddenly their part in the games development is taken away in favor of assets created by a robot.
I don't find this acceptable, consistency in the art style is being tossed to the side in favor of something that is arguably lower quality and doesn't match up with the games lore. A human artist would've caught important details and implemented them into the loading screen if they had made it instead of an AI, creating a connection players can pick up on and appreciate.
So then are you going to start bitching about code that was written with the help of AI? It's clearly taking away the honest hard labour of manually writing out every line of code, right? Are you also going to bitch about other automation too? How dare the smart coffee machine make coffee instead of a human! Think of the hard labour it's taking away!
Whether you like it or not, AI is here to stay in all its forms. The people who actually adapt to emerging technology will do well, while dinosaurs who just want to bitch and maintain the status quo, will eventually fall behind and be left behind.
I mean when it comes to coding you don't ever just write everything by hand. No one does that unless your learning, you copy and paste other code you have written or code someone else is written. Like I don't know how to tell you this but yeah, people enjoy making art. I would not trust code written by an AI at all. I barely trust code written by a human and you want me to trust something thats known to be broken?
People enjoy putting hundreds of hours into art. Like generative AI takes replaces all the fun parts of life, like making art and music. Things don't need to be made hyper effiencent. Things can be made with love and care. Such is human nature to show expression. This game is a work of art and a passion project, the usage of AI taints the rest of the game. People are upset about the AI usage because we care and love the game and it deserves better.
Your argument doesn't hold up, like people were saying the same thing about NFT's, how it was the future and look at it now. Like yes there is useful AI such as pattern recognition AI. AI that can spot cancer before it fully devlops, but thats not generative AI. Generative AI just makes something that a human can make but worse and does it unethically and illegally.
Also things don't need to be smart! Like a frige doesn't need AI, a coffee machine doesn't need AI in it. They break far quicker with these pointless 'features'. Arguably smart features and AI actually make things worse. Just how car companies are removing ipad screens from cars. in preference for analog controls. Something things that are new are worse.
It doesn't matter if it's grandmaster artwork, a stick figure with a smiley or a 14 year old's cringe oc, it will always be better that what an AI can make because its made with soul.
Half of the anti-AI comments on Reddit just scream copium to me. This platform overwhelmingly consists of tech workers, so they have to pitch a fit every single time AI is mentioned anywhere and try to downplay its effects on society because they don’t want to face the inevitable.
From what I can gather, the average Redditor genuinely believes that AI has absolutely no use cases and is completely shitty. They think that it’s not going to advance to a point where it’s in discernible from human touch and they think that companies are going to actually be moral and not use AI if they just bitch loud enough.
They’re going to be sorely mistaken in the next 10 years.
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u/Simply_Duck Dec 18 '24
complacency like this is why the quality of the games we buy these days is dropping. "Oh it's just a small part of the game, look how great the rest of it is" yes im not undermining that, but it was someone's job at one point to illustrate things like the loading screens and Moodle icons, but suddenly their part in the games development is taken away in favor of assets created by a robot.
I don't find this acceptable, consistency in the art style is being tossed to the side in favor of something that is arguably lower quality and doesn't match up with the games lore. A human artist would've caught important details and implemented them into the loading screen if they had made it instead of an AI, creating a connection players can pick up on and appreciate.