We were told that games were “art”, and that this new “creative” medium that we grew up with really mattered. Many of us (gamers and gamedevs alike) happily agreed…
But where is the artistry in outsourcing your assets to the big tech slop machine? What is creative about outsourcing your design, code and storytelling to an LLM?
Is it easy? Sure… Quick? Maybe… Cheap? For now, while big tech is happy to prop it up with other people’s money.
But it’s not cool and it’s not “art”. Like every piss filtered Studio Ghibli knockoff, there’s no artistry or creativity in it whatsoever. (They know that too, which is why companies are trying to hide or understate their use of AI.)
I just hope that they aren’t naively expecting people to pay full price, or even at all, for AI slop games.
To be perfectly honest, I’d still be against it as long as it is trained on the stolen work of regular people.
Not only is it devoid of artistry and creativity, generative AI as it is today is cultural exploitation and plagiarism on an unprecedented industrial scale. It’s incredibly unethical on top of being slop.