- Aug 24, 2022
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If AI means more quality games that would never exist otherwise then it's a net positive.AI is just a tool, Frontpage didn't replace Web Designers. It made it accessible to hobbyists so they can have their recipes websites. Likewise human generators (Fuse, DAZ3D, ...) including stylized (Vroid Studio) didn't erase the need/wish to create your own humanoid figures from scratch.
If someone wants to use AI to make their own 2D Art, that's very good. Over the years many artists gatekeeped the 2D behind ghosting or unreasonable prices. Not everyone can afford that, or wants to go through the whole contract thingie and then waste time if the artists poofs away half-way. For many, this is not a job, but a hobby which should be stress free.
That being said, Artists are still very much needed and useful. Not only AI art is not perfect or stylized enough (So you need an artist to fix it, or at least someone half competent to do it), but artists also create arts through layers (which are needed to create models, see vtubers for instance) and therefore make consistent changes when needed.
Last but not least, AI can only replicate what has already been done, so for instance it'd be completely useless to me as I want a consistent lineart, which is something real artists don't even do, let alone AI which bleeds it with the background.
Majority of people that use AI art are the same people that, without that option, would just go for 3D.
Of course AI can also mean a bunch of low effort garbo which we have seen in the last year.. but that happened regardless. AI didn't really invent that problem.
"But AI made it worse!!" I hear you say.. but honestly - Not really.. IMO.