Dude there is original art anymore come into the early 2000s nothing has ever been original mainly cause everything was influenced by something and the reason AI "art" became a thing was not to steal but was to give artist an idea. The AI would make something an artist would then look at what it made and then improve it by giving it a living beings touch. And when the other guy said obscuring the actual problem he means look at why and talk about it and not only talk/rage about AI "art" like a Boomer. We all played this a game and want to see it done and done well so just shut about the damn art and let's talk about how we came to this a bug filled mess. P.S all games have bugs on big updates so let cut them a little slack not all but just a little.
We can speculate about the reason behind AI for ages and won't come to conclusion since we would struggle hard to actually prove our point beyond mere speculations. I, personally, do not believe it was to give an idea - how would anyone even create a technology (that no doubt has a lot of money behind its development) just to inspire? The reason behind any action usually lies in material plane. In case of AI it is hard no to see that it could replace some of existing artworks -
while not paying artists for comissions. And this, I believe. is the real reason why AI-generators were created to begin with - to allow dirt-cheap mass-production of simpler pictures.
They are not tools of inspiration, but of simple greed. And I fail to see how it could be otherwise. Honestly, I find your notion of giving artist ideas naive, no offense. Call me a pessimist, if you like, I am who I am.
And do please stop telling me and other people to "please shut up" - we have all the rights and reasons in the world to complain.
And when the other guy said obscuring the actual problem he means look at why and talk about it and not only talk/rage about AI "art" like a Boomer.
Nice move with labeling your opponents boomers. But the point is - many of those people, me included, complain about AI stuff not just because of the stuff itself, though most of the replacement pictures suck - plain and simple. No, we complain about AI stuff because we have an established game with big financial backing trying to cut corners, even when it was not needed (some replaced pictures were actually good; and they had money so why not pay artists).
We complain about greedy and nonsensical behaviour on devs' part. AI is just one of the ways said behaviour shows itself.
And to give credit when credit is due -
I support the idea of using AI-stuff as a template or draft that would be used to test ideas or be worked upon by actual artist. I am not against AI, because I see it for what it is (at least I hope so) - a tool that could be used in many ways for many purposes. A revolutionary tool that greatly expands our creative horizons and give the ability to create something, albeit in "ordering pie instead of baking it" way, to people who'd otherwise never create anything.
But for fucks sake, what devs did to Roundscape isn't an example of how AI-stuff should be used! They've clearly cut corners with it, and not in a reasonable manner, since there is little if any method to what they've replaced. Using AI to add more new content is one thing, wasting your time and effort to replace what already was with AI that does little to no noticeable improvement while adding tons of new defects is wholly another thing. They didn't bother to polish generated images, leaving them with off-putting facial expressions, strange glint all over and glaring anatomical mistakes.
The quality of replacement images is low. That is not a matter of perspective or opinion, since many people in this thread pointed out specific and major mistakes AI have made. The quality is verifiably low.
I won't ask anyone to stop being apologetic to shit, I have no right to tell you what to do. I will just say that no matter how apologetic you get, the shit still smells.