They're just goofballs.

They took the blue pill. They are refusing the future.

Imagine getting upset that someone saved work by not sculpting every tree or bench in the game.

If people want a person to be doing the work that is their right.

I'd like a postcard hand drawn from the person on the street from that place.
I'd rather not have one from something a machine came up with there is no personal connection to it.

Originally posted by Faiyez:

Imagine getting upset that someone saved work by not sculpting every tree or bench in the game.

That's not how creating assets for a game has ever worked, where every single tree and bench is sculpted. Where did you learn this?

Originally posted by atomicgirl:

Originally posted by Faiyez:

Imagine getting upset that someone saved work by not sculpting every tree or bench in the game.

That's not how creating assets for a game has ever worked, where every single tree and bench is sculpted. Where did you learn this?

I think that was his point. They are hypocrites who would rather have cookie cutter everything than unique curated everything.

most dont. its just performance outrage. just noise

Originally posted by Faiyez:

Imagine getting upset that someone saved work by not sculpting every tree or bench in the game.

Procedural generation isn't AI.

NPC mentality

Ai slop = low effort = shovelware

Theres some decent uses for AI. Like using a chat bot with random NPCs, instead of giving them a handful of repetitive lines.

Using AI to remaster an old classic and then charging full price for the broken, buggy mess, is AI slop, though.

They don't know. They just copy what they hear from other people on their side. They will be unable to answer this question.

depends on it's use. if it adds to the experience I'm for it. if its used as a shortcut. its slop.

Originally posted by Blunt Raps:

Ai slop = low effort = shovelware

It's also an excuse to rip off the efforts of others. Big Tech came up with AI as a clever way to get around copyright and IP theft. Just code a program that basically scrapes or recycles assets and content from various sources, call it "AI", then argue that no one can be sued for theft because a "thing" made everything, and how can you sue a "thing" for theft? AI is sort of like the Big Tech version of, "The dog ate my homework."

I can't speak for everyone obviously, but for me AI is a sign of being sloppy and lazy.
If they're willing to cheap out and shortcut something small (like a lot of GenAI seems to be used for within games), then what bigger aspects are they also shortcutting y'know?

I'm not too anal about it. If a game uses GenAI assets, then I will simply not play it. But I will still play the games that don't use GenAI, I won't bar myself from an entire franchise because the devs got lazy with a single entry.
For example, I did that with Touhou 20. It uses GenAI for its backgrounds and as a result I just haven't played it and probably never will, unless I can find a copy second hand so ZUN doesn't see any profit from it. But if ZUN goes back to making everything by hand with Touhou 21 then I'll probably be willing to buy and play that one

I have noticed most of the people who call stuff slop also eat in fast food franchises and have very unhealthy diets. They literally eat the stuff without complaint but call stuff they don't like slop.