Why am I so adamantly against AI in video game development, even as "just a placeholder"? Because you can't publish video game art books that will go on to inspire generations of young developers and artists with prompt slop.
There's a sick irony for an indie show, built on the success of originality, whose story is about how it sucks to be stuck in a digital world where the leader forces people to do things for entertainment...to sellout to a company whose primary product is unoriginal rehashing of IPs for entertainment
If game studios, both small and large, keep up with this disgusting trend of "we only used it for concept and placeholders" then we will at best lose generational knowledge of how to create concept art and at worst will not have future generations of game devs at all
You build a studio to fly in the face of mega media corpos who disrespect their employees, even bringing in well known creators who were victims of mega media corpo layoffs and greed... And then turn around and collab with one of those very mega media corpos you were against
It's like making a modern adaptation of The Torment Nexus then once you pop off and do blockbusters, you collab with Torment Nexus Inc. what are we doing
I love how every post on LinkedIn that either uses AI images or talks about AI in favor of has comments disabled like they know they gonna get their ass beat in the comments.
Like, to build a unique story that's a modern adaptation of I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream, where the story seems relatable to everyone's current situation in the modern world, then turn around and collab with one of the very monsters of a company these kinds of stories warn us about...