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0 pointsflatline3y ago0 comments

I could glibly say the same about programming but it’s just not true. Anyone can learn to write a script to do some simple task, but they are not a programmer. The ability to go from a vision to a high quality output that accurately represents your vision requires years of work for most people, in any field.

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__loam3y ago· 3 in thread

And yet, so ready are we to discard those millennia of earned experience in favor of statistically generated sludge. Instead of glibly saying the same about programming, we glibly dismiss the role of the artist in making art. In another comment on this thread, someone talks about how Jon Blow could have saved $100,000 on art for Braid if he had used an ai system like this, perhaps not understanding that the art of Braid is a critical component of what makes it Braid.

If Karma is real, games made with uninteresting AI art will fail as we generate a sea of low-effort sludge.

GaggiX3y ago

History has shown that with every new tool people are going to make some crap, but also some wonderful things.

anonzzzies3y ago

Yeah, that won’t happen. As with anything; by far and large most people don’t care. As long as it’s fun, people will play. That statically generated sludge looks often better than what most humans come up with and sure, some (very few) humans are still better, but not for very long. That said, the speed and price of using AI are so much better and if you have 0 talent, like me, you can iterate for days for pennies. There is no going back.

fnordpiglet3y ago

I would note, as a 30 year student of Buddhism, this isn’t at all what karma is.

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