Did I ask for this feature? No. But I do think it's neat!
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What's the value here? This is based on the developer saying so and there's no obligation to do so. Black Ops 6 is loaded with Gen AI, the loading screens are obviously Mid Journey like and some of the actors have been replaced by digital performances which was in the news. They won't get tagged here for AI because it's not in the description.
So basically this is going to just have people filtering out devs who are honest and realistically that'll just be a few indie devs who had to use these tools because they're a one man team that can't afford artists.
I think we have to face the facts. Every game is going to be using these tools going forward. If you run a large studio and say no one use AI I bet you your artists are still speeding up making base textures. Your music guy is generating some starter melodies. Your writers are drafting up some filler to pad out the supplementary text.
These tools are as ubiquitous as photoshop (which has had content aware fill all the way back to CS-fucking-5) and unreal engine now (which has added it's own AI features). The idea that's there's only a handful of shady individuals and mega-corps using these tools is naive.
Iirc there was an obligation on steam to disclose AI use as well as the extent. Might be wrong though.
Use of AI will become mainstream. These filters need to ultimately sort how much of the game visuals/code are generated using gen AI
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Can a game be flagged as 'contains AI generated elements ' by the community?
This could be useful, but could also be abused by chuds that want to brigade a game they don't like.
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Good! Fuck the corporate slop. Justifying the use of Ai only in the name of “efficiency” is pathetic and capitalist. Pay artists a proper wage and give them the time needed to apply their craft.
No artist needs generative “Ai” to create. Only capitalist need it to produce more slop.
I get that everyone seems to be sticking ai in everything, but it's just another tool and it's here to stay. People thought the digital calculator was going to make everyone an idiot... And it probably did. That's why the world is like it is.
Calculators didn't steal products created by artists and repurpose them as their own.
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This comment is going to age very poorly. It sounds like just every other "progress? not on my watch!" comment people have made throughout history... Like it or not, AI generation is here and it's not going away, good or bad.
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I'm a one man Indie making a game. It's a management/strategy game and I want to add some depth to some of the pawns you control in the game by having a portrait for each and actual voices saying things and there are quite a lot of possible such pawns so that means quite lot of portraits and voices saying lines.
If I use generative AI I can do it at the cost of my time and some electricity for my PC, if I don't it would cost $$$ so wouldn't be able to have those elements because that's not just one or two portraits and voices.
Apparently if I use AI for it that makes me and my micro-company a big bad corporation.
If you're making it for profit, and using public resources (like GenAI trained on all the commons), then the game itself should be in the commons as well. (You can still sell it or request donations though) I support the GenAI in FOSS, but for-profit closed-source games should respect their own ideals (copyrights)
I totally agree that the things I make with Gen AI are public property.
What doesn't make sense is that all of my work must also become public merelly because it's alongside public works.
What I'm doing is years worth of my work, not just tic-tac-toe.
I mean, I wouldn't mind making free for everybody games all day (I have a TON of ideas) if I could live were I wanted and all my own living costs were taken care of, but that's not the World we live in so, not having been born to wealthy parents, I have to get paid for my work in order to survive.
If Copyright for you is an ideology (rather than a shittily implemented area of property legislation), then fell free to have your spin of it for the product of your time and effort, including having Contagion for public resources, just don't expect that others in the World we live in must go along with such an hyper-simplifying take on property of the intellectual kind.
I suspect that your take is deep down still anchored on an idea of "corporation" and making profits for the sake of further enriching already wealthy individuals, whilst I as a non-wealthy individual have to actually make a living of my work to survive and you're pretty much telling me that I can't use a specific kind of free shit to do my work better without all of my work having to be free for everybody (and I go live under a bridge and starve).
Don't take this badly but you're pretty much making the case that the worker can't have any free tools to earn their livelihood, which is just a way of making the case for "those who can afford it buy and own the tools, those who can't work for those who own the tools".
Whether you realise it or not you're defending something that just makes sure than only those who have enough money to afford paying for artisan work can make great things whilst the rest have to work for them and maybe do tiny things on their spare time.
I don't support the current system whatsoever and aim to dismantle it. But if you do, and you otherwise play by the rules of the system, then you have to accept that your "free tool" that improves your work comes at the expense of the livelihood of artists and creators and is therefore immoral to use in for-profit products. I don't agree with the scolds who claim that every GenAI use is immoral by default, but I do think that the tech itself when applied within capitalist practices is immoral as it's meant to deskill and disenfranchise workers.
Anyway, any defense you can make for your "little indie game" can be made by mega-corporations using GenAI just as well.
comes at the expense of the livelihood of artists and creators
I'm not that guy, but what livelihood of artists and creators? It's one dude working alone, where's the money for that going to come from?
I sometimes record music and put it on bandcamp, I recorded a single recently and it needed album art. I could take a picture and put a shitty filter on it, or I could generate an AI art that looks nice and more specific to my idea of what I wanted it to be.
I don't have $200 kicking around to comission art for something I did as a hobby.
Oh, I would totally be happy for a property-free world in all senses (so, one were I could just occupy a piece of land, were I would make my own house and grow my own food), what I'm not happy with is the idea that I still have to obbey all the rules on the side were I have to work within the system to make money in order to survive but on the other side what's mine is everybody's. Your ideal world is not one we can transition into by starting with making the tool users have to pay for all their tools but everything else "we'll solve later".
Further, I don't think Gen AI should be monetised - if it was trained on public works then what comes out of it are public works.
I play by the rules of the system because I have no choice: I was born in a World were everything is owned and wasn't born in the Owner Class - for me it was always play by other people's rules or go live under a bridge.
Your specific formulation in the last post was similar to saying that use of Open Source tools should make the product of one's work Open Source: if the Gen AI was trained with works that authors made freely available for any use as public works, then the resulting generative tool is akin to an open source piece of software (Edit: specifically, tools and libraries for software development) only instead of being something that creates or enhances very complex control code for a processing unit it's something that creates images or audio clips and when those images and audio clips are used as part of a much greater work, they're just as small a fraction of the work as, say, open source libraries are in software applications.
However, "what will happen to artists" is indeed a valid concern. If the same happens as it did with Open Source software in the Programming world, such a tool being freely available just means that people will expect even more complex works to be done - so in the case of games, for them to have more and nicer visuals - or in other words, for the amount of work that needs to be done to grow and pretty much nullify the gains from having the new tools. If that is not what happens, then we indeed have a problem.
Given the way things are, that formulation you defended will de facto result in Gen AI that is entirelly trained on paid for works, hence is paid for, hence only those who can afford it get to use it - which in the game making world means you're basically defending an option that helps the big for profit publishers and screws the small indies trying to make a living, which I suspect is the very opposite of the World you seem to want.
I ain't reading all that. Anyway you keep insisting that the world allow you to do what you want to do, I don't think it's going to work out the way you expect, no matter how big walls of text you write. Using GenAI in for-profit ventures is going to put you into a specific box. Make of this what you will.
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I would much rather play a game with text-only dialog and limited art assets than a game with AI generated narration or visual assets.
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Same here. Everyone complaining about AI in game development have no idea how hard indie devs have it. We desperately want to make a quality product and work our asses off doing so. We're working full time jobs for 'The Man' to fund it out of pocket, so every cent saved by using AI Gen is value being added elsewhere. Building games is really freakin' hard folks. The dream is to have a studio of artist making content, but that's literally impossible given my pay grade. It's truly a shame to see the gaming community rally against tooling that helps us indie devs make our dream a reality.
The problem with using gen AI is you're taking the effort of other hard workers for free. You thanklessly get the energy and time artists spent honing their craft because it was stolen by Gen AI. It pits hard worker vs hard worker all while the man profits.
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This is just overly broad. If I use a LLM to aid me in debugging doesn't mean the game is tainted.
I guess the issue is the wording of the statement and not the tag itself.
The line between using Gen AI as a tool and and putting unfiltered output out there is very blurry.
SteamDB is a third-party service, not affiliated with Valve.
Still, it gives consumers the choice. If you choose not to consume diamonds due to the whole diamond thing, that's fine even though synthetics exist.
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Procedural generation though. Infinite replay value with actual graphics or voiceover? Fuck yeah. Great roguelites will use genai and that's awesome.
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The sad part is, one day in the (far) future, when real AI (not LLMs) are an actual thing, and they could code great games from scratch, there would be so much bad animosity towards AI by then that they'll probably never see their games played.
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Nah, they'll just brand it as "Next Gen AI" or "True AI" or something. Kind of like how antivirus became "Endpoint Detection and Response"
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I like human created art because it's created by humans. If AI generated the greatest song, image, or video game i would not care—i don't want it.
I like human created art because it’s created by humans. If AI generated the greatest song, image, or video game i would not care—i don’t want it.
Your opinion seems prejudicial, focusing on the creator of the art, and not the art itself.
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Your comment seems loaded with purposefully inflammatory language intended to align AI with groups of actual real people who experience prejudice in the real world instead of corporations who have a vested interest in not paying artists, and brother, as a trans person, it makes you look like a real silly goose.
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Once they actually produce great games, you'll probably want to play them. People didn't stop buying products because they were made by machines instead of artisans.
Humans still controlled the machines.
AI takes the human creativity out of the equation.
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Imma feed your comment into an llm and your magic spell can't stop me
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Arguably the point of having machines do the work for us is that they're NOT sentient.
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It would be nice if Steam just banned games made with Gen AI in the first place.
I'm not sure how I feel about that. If they use an LLM for troubleshooting an issue, does that mean the game must be thrown out? What if they use an LLM for repetitive tasks like creating config files, then the game is no good?
What about shovelware games that are just asset flips without any use of an LLM, are those games okay?
I don't think it's necessarily as simple as using generative AI in any way means the game is bad.
I use LLMs at work, does that mean that another developer who refuses to try LLMs is immediately a better developer than me? I'm not so sure it's that simple.
Agreed. People overrect both ways - management wants AI everywhere, and users don't want to hear of it.
It's a tool that can be very helpful if used correctly.
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It's funny how some comments whinge about this as if AI generated quality stood any chance in hell against real art.
Good idea, but I imagine it might be hard to prove here shortly. For instance there's a YouTube video about movies with "no CGI" are actually just movies with hidden CGI. https://youtu.be/7ttG90raCNo?feature=shared
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