musician/photographer, so I deeply understand the plight of my fellow creatives & pretty much think people who profit off scraped/stolen art should be punished, monetarily and/or jailed. That said: There’s been a lot of handwringing over AI in the gaming industry, and I fully understand the panic. - ThreadSky

mickjayplays.bsky.social • 4 days ago

musician/photographer, so I deeply understand the plight of my fellow creatives & pretty much think people who profit off scraped/stolen art should be punished, monetarily and/or jailed.

That said: There’s been a lot of handwringing over AI in the gaming industry, and I fully understand the panic.

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mickjayplays.bsky.social•4 days ago

Because of the early nature of public AI and callous theft and unmitigated greed of those like Sam Altman building their models off the backs of people that are infinitely more creative and talented than they are, creatives are rightfully afraid of AI “taking their jobs”.

Yet, for the most

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talented and skilled creatives, I posit that their jobs won’t be going anywhere, but they *will* be changing. In fact, they might even be paid better than they are currently.

So, where is the industry going? Firstly, the nature of game making is about to change dramatically. Eventually, AI will

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build bespoke games, made for each individual gamer, from a prompt. Think: the Holodeck from Star Trek. Every single person playing a game tailored for their tastes.

Some people will gravitate towards co-op or MMO experiences, so AI will build beautiful, shared worlds and games for those people,

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tailored to their needs and skill levels.

It's even possible that "prompters" will become in demand for their skill in making particular AIs produce the most vivd and exciting worlds that multiple people want to experience.

So, where does that leave studios, along with devs/artists/composers?

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Studios will build AIs that represent the vision of games they want to present. They will build AIs with signature creative styles (art and music, writing, mood, etc) and gameplay loops. They will build AI to create games that are a specific type of *experience*.

And that’s where the creatives

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come in: we will produce art/music/writing in our signature styles. That content will be used to train the AIs to produce games with an overarching, cohesive “style” of game the AI will produce. Their content will be used to produce a signature style that is the vision of the studio.

I can even see

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