Can't wait for the AI to start giving me tips based on a previous entry in a series because that's all it knows about, referring to mechanics which no longer exist and set-ups which are no longer possible.

Proper multi-level tooltips can do far more to teach the user in 4X and grand strategy games than a chatbot can. It's pretty much how I learned to play AoW4.

It's not cheap. McDonald's said that their recent AI flop commercial cost more to produce then if it was made by human interaction.

Exactly. If we thought the companies would fold in AI thoughtfully as one tool of many for game creators to consider when implementing their vision I doubt people would be negative. As it stands we trust companies to continue doing what they’re doing: forcing workers to incorporate AI into their workflow because they’re rich friends at google/meta/openAI really really need the technology to succeed to make back anything on their investment even though the profit step still reads ??? in their master plan anyway.

Regardless of AI – capitalism doesn’t care if it’s “art”.

Most of the CGI in Fury Road is used for the backdrops, not the main focus of the action. You wouldn't even notice it unless it's pointed out and you see the real world place they filmed vs what they made it look like with CGI in the film.

Compare that to, say, the crappy alligators in Eraser. Or even the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.

No, laziness is good. Laziness begets engineering.

The issue is that “generative AI” (which is neither generative nor intelligence) is built upon the stolen works of countless artists.

The issue is that it consumes massive amounts of resources and energy to produce mediocre results at best.

The issue is that it threatens the livelihood of whole segments of society, especially the ones who contribute the most to human culture.

The issue is that it's not sustainable. Once it runs out of new content to plagiarize it will be unable to produce anything new. It can't replace what it's destroying.

The issue is that it's so vastly inefficient that the data centres needed to sustain it are becoming a major contributor to global warming.

The issue is that its bubble is causing massive price increases in consumer computer parts.

The issue is that when it pops it'll take the rest of the economy with it.

The issue is that it's a gateway drug. It's being sold at a loss to destroy the human competition, and will inevitably increase massively in price once it's become a necessary part of everyone's process.

The issue is that it's being forced everywhere regardless of its uselessness for the task, replacing technologies that were actually useful and making everything less useable and more inefficient.

The issue is that it's making everything less reliable, and will inevitably cause massive damage and loss of life.

The issue is that LLM use has been demonstrated to cause brain damage, yet they elude regulation and the companies selling them have yet to face consequences.

The issue is that all of this makes it an existential threat to humanity, and a significant contributor to the ones we were already facing.

The issue is that, once you've taken into account all the pros and cons, doing everything possible to ensure it ceases to exist as soon as possible in any way, shape, or form, together with the companies selling it and the CEOs responsible for them and any politicians and investors enabling them, becomes an evident moral and ethical imperative.

I get your overall point, but I do think that the issue isn't laziness, the issue is the use of AI. I think it's a problem when AI is used whether the result looks good or not, because of the nature of how those AI models are trained, the environmental impact of their data centers, among other issues. For example, the current ram shortage is a direct result of these data centers. Overall, we're also talking about people's jobs. And as much as I'm offer degrowth and reducing the amount of work that people do, I also think it's important that artists who are typically always underpaid anyways, are able to keep their paying jobs. I've seen so many programming positions reduced to minimum wage AI prompt writer positions, and that same shit is happening to real artists that have rent to pay and kids to raise... We already have tools to make these jobs more efficient, but the last thing video games really need is more cost cutting measures.

There are mods that implement it, don't know about games. Skyrim has an AI driven follower mod and STALKER Anomaly has the TALKER mod.

There's a game called suck up, that also has this. I've read mixed results on it, but the idea seemed unique at least

From my understanding that game Where Winds Meet game has something like that.

I don't know a single game where it's been implemented yet, which is unreal.

Recently when browsing through Steam, I stumbled on Whispers from the Star in which you help a LLM-driven character. It looks interesting and it has positive reviews on Steam but I haven't played it yet myself.

My understanding is they only generated some textures, which everyone noticed and complained about, so they had to patch in human-created textures to replace them.

They also lost a goty award because they lied about having never used ai.

I don't think either of those situations would encourage hidden use of ai.

From what I remember people knew about the AI thing for a long time, but forgave it cause it was replaced immediately after release. I think what makes people upset at Lairion now is that they're trying to dance around the AI problem instead of discussing it directly. They come up with tons of excuses whenever asked instead of just strongly sticking to their choice. It's like whenever any big company gets called out for doing something stupid. They just do bad PR nonsense instead of saying what they actually mean.

AI has a lot of problems beyond how it looks. I was going to play COE33 but I'm no longer interested.