Modern AAA games aren't economically viable.

Bullshit! Gaming is the sixth most lucrative industry in the world and, with the possible exception of mobile game money farms like Zynga, the AAA studios are the most profitable.

You have to overwork and overpay the shit out of developers to make your average AAA game,

You don't HAVE to overwork developers. It's a toxic and unnecessary standard practice. As for overpaying developers, that's the OPPOSITE of the truth. Unless they're also the publishers like Larian, developers get an absolutely miniscule fraction of the profits of any given game.

and even with that they still nickel and dime users for all they're worth

Not because they have to. Because they're allowed to. It's not need, it's greed.

Theoretically ML can be used in a way that doesn't result in people being laid off and instead just reduces the workload

That's how it SHOULD work, but never how it DOES work. Especially with amoral companies like EA.

It certainly couldn't make EA games any more generic or sloppy than they already are.

It can and it most likely will. ML produces the best results when guided and corrected by actual humans with actual expertise. That's not how EA are going to use it though, they're going to use it to REPLACE actual humans with actual expertise in order to maximize profits.

chances are they'll just lay off half their devs and voice actors and shit, again bc capitalism and shit.

No fair doing a 180 after I've already corrected you! 😁

Tldr AAA game devs could use ML to make AAA development more ethical and economical, but probably won't be bc that'd make less money for the shareholders :c

Again, how DARE you pivot to being right after I've gone through so much effort pointing out how wrong the majority of your comment was? 😤😄

Not gonna go back now, I'm far too lazy to do all that and just delete it 😉