What are your thoughts on this? Specifically, could AI be used in the arts? Or only in coding? Or both/neither?

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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

Not a popular opinion, everyone wants the answer to be "never, it's terrible and useless", but I'm inclined to agree with you on almost every point. AI is a powerful tool with guidelines and testing to constrain it, and smart human review. My only real point of contention is writing.

I find writing is like coding, in that a good story needs structure, pacing, a lot of elements to work on a macro scale, although with virtually no ability to bake that into the "good approved code" that the AI can work off. Perceiving that structure and pacing requires more context than any AI can handle. Honestly I think writing is probably the #1 area AI should be kept out of. I'd be pretty concerned that AI output feels good enough, but really poisons any story you let it influence you on. And a bland story is a pretty cardinal sin for a good game. I also find AI writing and patterns are much more obvious than a lot of people think, I've certainly seen coworkers wield it with undue confidence enough times.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I agree for the most part, but keep in mind theres decent chunks of "writing" in video games that are mostly filler and probably no one would notice or can tell if the line is AI vs an intern who wrote it.

    Like... npc one-liners and stuff like that, item descriptions, etc. Stuff where its probably not even gonna be looked at by 99.9% of ppl anyways and the bar for quality is very low.

    Whats critical here us understanding that you dont replace your writers here.

    You just took a boring/monotonous task off their plate so that they can focus time/energy on more important parts of the game

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Fair enough, constrained to trite variations of basic dialogue, I could see it being a pretty reasonable use case in a big game with lots of NPCs, especially if you've got a good corpus of examples to give it a baseline.

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