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It's a different story for the more established studios with an existing following and previous titles. Game Oracle found that the use of AI by these studios resulted in a significant 40% to 60% drop in sales.

That's a huge difference. AI stigma seems to hit competent developers with a lot to lose the hardest, and I'm not sure that game studios are ready to accept it.

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[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Humans, by definition, have spontaneously created art. There was no art before humans, and now with humans, there is art. LIMs, LLMs, and LAMs cannot, and could never do such a thing. There is no spontaneity, it can only do what is prompted of it. It is a tool, nothing more. And sometimes, in the right hands, it can be an extremely powerful tool, but mostly it is used to churn out generic, average, shit, because that is what it is programmed to do.

Also, I have personally seen an extremely talented artist create something that neither he or I had ever seen before in that genre or space, that came after years and years of dedicated work and expert craftsmanship in the artistic field. It was one of the coolest things I have ever seen, an amalgamation of both his personal experiences, style and craft. And you know what the public reception was, what his dealers told him? They rejected it as too weird, and told him nobody would want to buy it, literally lost him his 30 years in a row spot at the Laguna Beach Art Gallery. I have yet to see an LIM, LLM, or LAM generate something even close to that level of perseverance and talent, and I actively seek out LAM music to listen to because it is an extremely interesting music space to interact with as someone who DJs as a hobby, because you can generate a hundred songs that, technically, have different lyrics, but all sound exactly the same. Just because something isn't good, doesn't mean it isn't interesting.

Also if you don't fucking know about cave paintings, what the fuck are you even here talking about? You are drowning in a puddle.