disseration survey on ai for games art
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdlacbXMY8XdVs_nfOcQWQTa5icU1719-68URfyp61O25X0wQ/viewform?usp=header
im currently doing my final year project and for my research i have created a survey about the use of generative ai in the games industry
any responses would be much appreciated thanks
im currently doing my final year project and for my research i have created a survey about the use of generative ai in the games industry
any responses would be much appreciated thanks
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But hey, you do you. Just saying that a final project consisting of, say, studying the level design principles of a great series of games, or diving into the game design philosophy of a successful game director/designer is likely going to be more valuable and teach you more things.
As for your question, I'll give my answer in the form of a hypothetical question; "Dear US Department of Commerce - hi, I was wondering what role and benefits there are of counterfeit money in the US economy?"
Feel free to canvas our users for ideas about AI in game art. However, as stated, there is a long-running thread that is pretty clear in expressing the community's overall feeling about AI in game development.
Overall I think the sentiment can be summarized as:
* Gen AI steals artist's work. This is shitty.
* It sucks for generating quality content. (but it might be usable for helping people generate raw ideas, which then require a human mind to refine and grow into a usable prototype)
* It masquerades as a subject-matter expert (SME), but human SME's know it's actually more often full of shit than not.
Anyhow, good luck with your dissertation. I think our members stated it pretty clearly. AI is just the current hot topic, but no substitute for learning real knowledge.
I'll add some extra notes as well.
Where I work we are expressly forbidden from using generative AI for any shippable content - this decision was made at the topmost level of management (nobody is arguing with that). This is certainly in part due to ethical concerns but I believe there is also a legal aspect to the decision.
ignoring my personal feelings about the ethics and the damage that not learning for yourself does...
The fact is, Generative AI is not actually very useful for art content generation
1: It is objectively incapable of coming up with anything novel
2: *if* you give a shit about the output you need to train your model on your own content - this process is not just extremely expensive and time consuming but it's also not very reliable and it's almost certainly a better business decision to just pay some people to do the work.
The tech underneath is amazing and will eventually lead to really good tools that increase artist productivity but we have a few years to wait before the investment circle-jerk comes to it's natural end and the smart people are allowed to do something useful with their time.