>few years ago, generative AI and LLMs are first entering the public zeitgeist.
>countless opportunities and excitement arises in terms of video games
>imagine NPC's you can fully interact with, not just using predefined conversation paths
>imagine photorealistic, movie like graphics being generated on the fly where you cannot tell virtual and real life footage apart
>Imagine in-depth stories generated uniquely to you by AI game master like entities.
>fast forward to now
>everyone thinks AI is slop
>usage of AI is seen as cheap and lazy
>""artists"" are going crazy because machines are suddenly becoming just as capable, if not better at creating original content
>usage of LLMs is seen as some cardinal sin in the realm of creativity.
>generative AI companies are slandered from training their content on other works and "stealing" from artists - despite the fact every story, drawing, song is in some way inspired by previous works.
Is it fear of progress? Inability to cope with the fact that certain skills, like illustration, once seen as somewhat valuable are not actually that special and can be replicated so easily by machines?