Liam @ GamingOnLinux š§š®Seeing more and more games on Steam have their AI generation disclosures like ādonāt worry itās just backgrounds, voicesā¦and so onā.
If you canāt be bothered to make it, why should I be bothered to play it? Or write about it?
Frank@gamingonlinux I feel somewhat conflicted about this. At what point is AI not just another tool a developer or creative person can add to their toolbox? Long, long ago I hand coded 8 bit sprite matrixes. Then came tools to draw your sprites which dumped the matrix for you. 3D is just a long road of ever more versatile tools that let you apply templates and logic to create and animate what you need.
Gustavo@fschaap @gamingonlinux One thing would bother me is if the majority of things I see on a game was AI generated. I have saw some games on itch.io where all imagery is AI generated and... its horrible. Sure, there are comments like "don't let the comments complaining about AI get you down", but, come on, it only shows the developer have quite low standards. At least those were free games, probably their first ones too, but, if they are making a free game, couldn't they find someone to team with that knows how to draw something for free? Or just code a text-only game first before adventuring into more complex challenges? I have my share of text-only games I made. Or just do programmer art. The normalization of AI for artwork worries me a lot.
@qgustavor @gamingonlinux Whatever currently passes for 'AI' makes it way easier to make slop. Very annoying, but if enough people simply ignore them and don't reward them with money or attention, it will hopefully slowly descend into a mostly filterable problem like spam.