Quote Originally Posted by Taliriah View Post
AI have "tragedy of the commons" written all over it. Here's a number of things that can and will happen medium to long term:

- people gradually stopping to study art, because it will become impossible to find jobs
- AI regurgitating the same stuff over and over, because of a lack of new material produced by actual human artists to train the AIs from (they're regurgitating engines and incapable of true creation because they don't have any actual "understanding" of human culture). Expect a great stagnation in the themes and art styles of games (and other things) in the medium to long term as everyone turns to AI to crank up "new" concepts that will constantly recycle the same crap.
- Oh and another fun thing, AIs will become increasingly trained on crap that was produced by other AIs, resulting in gradual degradation of the results as they will reproduce and amplify the mistakes made by the previous AIs.

And yet people will rush to use it for easy short term gains like "getting more armors in the final fantasy 14 video game" or "not having to pay employees that have ludicrous demands like not working 24/7 or eating".
AI is technology like any other. It can be disruptive in some respects, but unless we decide to never move forward technologically again we need to learn to live with it and avoid the potential problems. People won't stop studying art because art can still be performed for the sake of it, or because AI won't fully replace artists. AI also has no motivation like you said so somewhere in the process of AI generation a person must be involved. With AI to do repetitive work we can have more people to focus on creativity. If AI generation statnates due to a lack of trainable material, that also leaves opportunity for human artists to create.

The solution to the pitfalls of AI isn't to avoid AI, it's to integrate it correctly into the processes we have now. Being totally against AI is just going to lead to stagnation and worse products, just like banning computers in favor of work done by hand or banning cars to force reliance on horses.