Gaming

For example, if you want to put a TV inside of your game, you can't just use an existing product as is – you need to think of a fictional TV design from scratch, including the manufacturer's logo and everything else about the object.

This is such a bullshit problem. No other media has this issue. This wasn't a problem before and never should've been allowed to become a problem. Real objects have populated the scenes of movies for decades, artists have painted scenes rendering real clothes and weapons and carriages and all with accurate shapes for centuries, before the 2000's video games seemed to have no issue doing the same. Something changed and now we're left with absurd assets.

Rendering real objects without any limitations or requirement for legal agreements should be a right of any artist in any field.

Cool, cool. More jobs to disappear.

Corpo figurehead bloviating nonsense problems to justify paying fewer writers. Sure, just pay google to steal their ideas badly and at scale. As if they don't already recycle and resell content constantly, you need an LLM to steal a riff on the Magnavox logo? Maybe leave the creative industry and make room for actual creatives.

According to Abe, one of the most time-consuming and labor-intensive parts of game development is coming up with the "hundreds of thousands of unique ideas" needed to create the in-game environment. For example, if you want to put a TV inside of your game, you can't just use an existing product as is – you need to think of a fictional TV design from scratch, including the manufacturer's logo and everything else about the object.

I can just go into the asset browser and find a whole slew of TVs I can just add to my game and either use them as-is, or tweak the look a bit to fit my aesthetic choice and not need to reinvent the wheel every damn time. It's such a small thing that's just filling out the background, that adding details like a fictional logo aren't necessary at all, unless it's actually relevant to the plot somehow. What the fuck is Abe smoking with that example?

It does make sense if you replace the word time with money. Paying all those artists to make all those little details for every little thing is costly. But AI will do it for free.

I thought this was The Onion and now I'm disappointed.