People are openly selling AI art?
Yes, if someone believes it griftable it will be grifted. People were selling nft’s too.
They are on the porn side at least. Well, trying to.
I imagine it’s like OF where the market is saturated and only the top few percent of sellers are making any money on it, but with even less to make any particular seller stand out.
No, but it does empower solo indie creators to do something beyond that. Like a dude who’s a solo programmer can now make a reasonably okay looking game without dipping into “programmer art”.
Obviously once their game gets enough traction they should pay a real artist to do it right but it’s not a bad idea to prove the concept first using low effort AI art.
As someone with a game collection so large I won’t able to finish in two lifetimes, game art is important enough to make me decide for a game and not for another one.
It is so true that certain games do not reach wider audiences because their art style is not as skilled as in other projects.
I find AI art derivative, mediocre and dull. It IS of surprising quality and at the same time incredibly boring. And I feel this blob of grey will increase as it becomes standardized and more AI art games become the norm.
Corollary: If someone shows you a picture made by AI and tells you nothing but to rate it, you’ll probably just shrug.
Yes, but you can’t have professional art during the whole process of development. It’s far more efficient for a solo dev to test first before paying an artist to make the final assets.
Game development is so chaotic, I’ve seen people throw away thousands of dollars of art because it turns out the game never needed those assets in the first place.
I mean… There are free and super cheap assets that can be used for temporary placement. Plus I’m not against someone using AI for their assets.
My point is, if someone’s gonna use two years or more of their lives for making a game, using AI art is going to go against them.
No, but it does empower solo indie creators to do something beyond that. Like a dude who’s a solo programmer can now make a reasonably okay looking game without dipping into “programmer art”.
Source (Bluesky)
https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-consumers-turned-off-products-ai
AI is a glorified paint bucket in MSPaint. If there’s an automated task, it can help.
Tools for coloring, shading, even cleaning up sketches are all things digital artists have had at their disposal. Adjusting hues, contrast, saturation, etc. Drawing in blue and just screening it out with a filter is a nice technique.
That’s the stuff AI can actually be useful for.
That said I don’t think good works of art tend to feature prominent use of the MS Paint bucket.
Wahhhaa I can’t figure out how to type words into text box.
Good post but I don’t see how it is anti ai at all
