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Mmm just give me ladles of that easy quick slop mmm yes please just pour it down my gullet, all that regurgitated mashed-up machine bullshit mmmmmm
No no, please give me those vast definitely not procedural generated landscapes of open world games - no even better give me the infinite world of Minecraft that is just procedurally generated and those wall and floor textures that some poor overworked artis generated by putting a noise filter on gray and brown squares. Oh you can't imagine how much I love the dialogue choices that totally make sense. And the always identical animations of every character I meet in my games
But I really despise this regurgitated stuff from an AI, especially the translations of languages that I don't understand. Or variated character models or some textures that I usually only notice if they were missing.
Raging about AI is a trend. It will go away like gamergate, shutting down reddit 3rd party apps and removing porn from Flickr. Those who add value to their products with GenAI will prevail.
So rage in harmony with other haters instead of improving by being constructive.
Dude, just let AI fuck your wife too. It can probably do it better than you can.
God forbid we dignify those people with a personal touch. Yeah, just let google translate do it: a technology famous for giving really good translations.
Given your mom provided the training data it probably could. But that's not the point
Nobody said that there will only be GenAI generated games. There will be generated stuff in games. It's not going away. You are allowed to hate that but it won't change the industry.
Imagine saying this about asbestos, lead, freon, bitcoin, or cigarettes.
You don't want it to go anywhere, why the hell would I listen to you?
Those are all still here in one form of another. Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general is as strong as it’s ever been. But you do point at how this will go. Soonish there will be less overtly AI products as we realize that it is not the be all end all, and instead it will be yet another technology that we can use to achieve various goals. But moving forward it will probably be embedded in the background of most things, as it had been for almost a decade before gen ai.
I don't play Minecraft. I don't like procedural generation. I didn't bring them up.
GenAI is a lazy shortcut for the untalented or dispassionate. It can help in wireframing for an idea, sometimes, but any more than that and it falls down, in my opinion.
I'm going to steal this
Ironically, I won't credit you
The personal touch was underpaid workers doing cookie cutter work that was hardly better than AI does but more expensive. I don’t see actual talented artists complaining all that much about AI it’s always the assembly line video game artists or even worst some furry fucker who didn’t even have their own style to begin with with. Ie the people who AI was created to replace because they bring nothing to the table.
I know many talented artists that very much do not care for AI slop.
For the thousandth time: Translation is not a 1:1 formula, that can be easily automated by a machine.
They’re not translating Brothers Kamarazov here, you can chill.
As opposed to the human made slop that permeated the industry? Just because a human made it doesn’t mean it was good for fucks sake. At least now we can make mediocrity at scale.
What did I say that makes you think I'm in favour of bad things that humans made? I'm anti bad things.
It was all bad anyways so we might as well make it efficient. Games are products. If you want art go to an art gallery.
It sounds like we disagree on some fundamentals here, so I'm happy to bow out. Have a good midweek! ✌️