The entire situation is pretty dire because I fear there’s a critical mass of consumers who don’t give a shit or even like the slop filter. And for artists it’s even worse because I agree, most of them probably won’t get a say in the matter and they get stuck doing soulless work. But I also think we’re going to artists either move into the indie scene or completely exit the industry (either by force as people get laid off to put more soulless work on a single individual or by attrition where the wages get reduced because “your work is now mostly done by AI”).
My light at the end of the tunnel is the hope that we’re just going to get more and more small and/or independent studios doing their own thing and having the creative control to tell Huang to shove his slop filter up his ass. The trend is already going that way with some of the best games of recent years coming from smaller studios while the traditional AAA struggles to find a footing.
The entire situation is pretty dire because I fear there’s a critical mass of consumers who don’t give a shit or even like the slop filter. And for artists it’s even worse because I agree, most of them probably won’t get a say in the matter and they get stuck doing soulless work. But I also think we’re going to artists either move into the indie scene or completely exit the industry (either by force as people get laid off to put more soulless work on a single individual or by attrition where the wages get reduced because “your work is now mostly done by AI”).
My light at the end of the tunnel is the hope that we’re just going to get more and more small and/or independent studios doing their own thing and having the creative control to tell Huang to shove his slop filter up his ass. The trend is already going that way with some of the best games of recent years coming from smaller studios while the traditional AAA struggles to find a footing.