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The New Normal?
🕑 Added 2023-05-07 20:26:21 +0000 UTCI've been working on Healslut through the weekend but this morning I took a couple hours to step back and mess around with AI a little more to replenish my creativity. This isn't for the game but just me constantly looking for new things to learn, which I believe is a big part of what makes Healslut so interesting (and maybe a bit batshit crazy).
It is amazing what AI is capable of and it is only getting more and more powerful. Soon enough we are going to be able to tell our computer to create a new videogame for us to play, just like this: "Create a humorous but dark and emotional visual novel for me based in the Healslut world -- and make sure to include Wejit this time, you blasphemous machine!" It'll be done before you get your snack and drink to sit down and play it.
Anyway, you can see I took a raw image the AI gave me to a 'Fallout' prompt and then I had the AI fix and adjust parts of its own generated image. It's wild, right?
Now as far as the morals and ethics, it's not great. This is, at the very root, theft. And while it is true that artists have always borrowed from other artists -- as a means of understanding and growth -- it has never before been so blatant and undermining. When someone can train an AI on your life's work and then create detailed pieces of art which look exactly as if you had done it, then where does that leave the you?
Sorry I'm babbling again! I try to keep an open mind but I find myself going from appreciative to angry to amazed in worrying cycles.
I'm not using AI in Healslut at all, just for the record. No images/text/nothing. This will be all me because that is something I can contribute to the world that is a part of me and only me. But if one day you sit down and have a machine make a sequel or sidestory to Healslut for you to enjoy, I'll simply be happy that you are enjoying it.
Now enough nonsense. I have to get back to work because I have three big things to finish before the upcoming release!
As always and forever, thank you all for your support and friendship. I appreciate you.
Comments
Mondaiji
I have been playing around a lot with Stable Diffusion and for now to create good stuff with the help of "AI" you still have to put a lot of work in to it. I just do not see it as dark as some want to make it out it is. The skills used to create great work might shift but there will always be work and skill involved.
TCoffin
I've been thinking a lot about this lately. As much as I dislike it for the ethical issues, I'm a realist and it isn't going away now that the pandora's box is opened. I think there are some ethical ways to use it though. It already lacks any inherent value due to being completely derivative, and often the user has barely any control over what it spits out. I think by using works as a base and applying some artistic know-how and painting over the result one can produce a work that is much more hand-crafted and unique, while eliminating some of the recycled stolen input it's regurgitating.
IdonCare
I'm indeed conflicted, with the AI we could have more games from people that can write a good story without having to wait for the Art. But on the other hand its giving money to a theft machine instead of someone working hard for the Art and a lot of games are gonna end up looking kinda equal enough
