My 2 cents on why I think at the moment that I would find AI-driven games boring in the future (to clear confusion I think games are art):
- Amazing art is rare. Finding this amazing art nowadays is hard, with AI generated mumbojumbo increasing the noise it will be harder. It will be easier to just skip all AI generated stuff to find the real good stuff.
- Art has human touch or a message almost always in it. Purely AI generated stuff lacks meaning, because there's no creator.
- Socially sharing experiences that are unique only to you will be hard. I like to talk with my friends about the newest Nolan film or about Elden Ring's best bosses. If the whole game experience would be unique to me I wouldn't be able to relate with my friends at all and it would be the same as playing a different game.
- Valuing human work. I idolize people who have the skills to make great art. AI takes away from it.
But to these points, I can also see the future where
- AI could generate amazing art a lot, and would make me reconsider my categorical exclusion of AI art.
- AI could make it seem there's meaning behind the art, or an artist would use the AI as a tool to convey his meaning.
- Unique game experiences would be so wild that you would be sharing them and relating via that way.
- AI becomes so common that valuing human skills isn't important anymore
Last point, I think novelty is something I value a lot and that's why in my opinion amazing art is rare. If AI would start creating a lot of novel art, novelty and rarity would just become common, and common is boring.
> an artist would use the AI as a tool to convey his meaning.
I'm not sure why this is shoved in as an aside near the end of the comment. This is how it's used. This is how it'll be used to create games.
Does anyone think that, what, ChatGPT is going to poop out an entire finished game and we'll release that? Or would artists use AI as just another tool to create their art?
> I'm not sure why this is shoved in as an aside near the end of the comment. This is how it's used. This is how it'll be used to create games.
No one who is good at what they do wants to do this. Everyone who is bad at what they do is doing this. I don't know why tech people think they understand the art industry at all.
What context did I miss exactly that would change the fact that people can work in multiple industries at once, or can change industries over time, or the large overlap between "tech" and "art" these days?
>Does anyone think that, what, ChatGPT is going to poop out an entire finished game and we'll release that?
Well if this trajectory continues upwards, it almost certainly will happen in the next decade.
Right now feels like how the 70's-80's felt with the rise of the microprocessor. Tons of promise and implementation ideas, but the tech just wasn't there yet. But sure as hell it came around.
- Amazing art is rare. Finding this amazing art nowadays is hard, with AI generated mumbojumbo increasing the noise it will be harder. It will be easier to just skip all AI generated stuff to find the real good stuff.
- Art has human touch or a message almost always in it. Purely AI generated stuff lacks meaning, because there's no creator.
- Socially sharing experiences that are unique only to you will be hard. I like to talk with my friends about the newest Nolan film or about Elden Ring's best bosses. If the whole game experience would be unique to me I wouldn't be able to relate with my friends at all and it would be the same as playing a different game.
- Valuing human work. I idolize people who have the skills to make great art. AI takes away from it.
But to these points, I can also see the future where
- AI could generate amazing art a lot, and would make me reconsider my categorical exclusion of AI art.
- AI could make it seem there's meaning behind the art, or an artist would use the AI as a tool to convey his meaning. - Unique game experiences would be so wild that you would be sharing them and relating via that way.
- AI becomes so common that valuing human skills isn't important anymore
Last point, I think novelty is something I value a lot and that's why in my opinion amazing art is rare. If AI would start creating a lot of novel art, novelty and rarity would just become common, and common is boring.