AI art

[Techbot]

My background comes from hacking things into games. We've seen Doom be put into the CPU  of refrigerators and games made from excel spreadsheets and foxpro databases.

Nearly every tech development asks two questions.
Can you watch porn on it?
Can you make games with it?

To not make a game out of A.I seems to me to be completely missing the point. To consider discussing your art as "admitting to use A.I" as if it were a crime is absurd.
Largely what we are discussing here is a commercial entity trying to ban something that might threaten it's profits. This discussion is totally removed from anything to do with games art, technology etc. it's just profit.

The other discussion is that of copyright theft and that's a different story, but again not really related to whether one should A.I rather whether one should use A.I that uses copyrighted input. Or use A.I to mimic an individuals style.

The discussion of taking money from the mouth of artists is a non argument that is present at the dawn of every new technology and not to be entertained IMO.(outside of the above argument).

Meanwhile I use A.I.
When I am being too arty and need to dumb down and instead think like the "average internet user or the sum of all internet use", I use A.I . But inevitably I get these warnings "you cannot discuss murder and drug use in your fictional narrative"  How can that be of any use to a serious writer?

Or when I want to make linear or non linear lists which chat GPT just loves (as do I and most RPG gamers.) This kind of ties in with what I said about the average interent user. Sometimes I think to hard about the progression in my game, but I also dislike making up names for npcs or items (I call everything a transmogrifiier). Hence:

Me: create a recipe for circuit boards using 4 fictitious elements
ChatGPT: Sure, here's an example recipe for circuit boards using 4 fictitious elements:

Ingredients:

    1 unit of zyrenite
    2 units of veridium
    3 units of xanthite
    4 units of hydronite

Instructions:

    Extract zyrenite from its mineral deposit using a plasma cutter and extractive distillation process.
    Purify zyrenite using acid leaching and solvent extraction techniques to remove impurities.
    Combine purified zyrenite with veridium in a high-temperature furnace to create a zyrenite-veridium alloy.
    Add xanthite to the zyrenite-veridium alloy and heat the mixture in a vacuum chamber to create a molten solution.
    Introduce hydronite to the molten solution and stir the mixture to evenly distribute the elements.
    Pour the molten solution onto a cooling plate to solidify into a circuit board with the desired pattern of electrical traces and components.
    Inspect the circuit board for defects and test its performance to ensure it meets quality standards.

Note: The specific methods and equipment used for each step may vary depending on the properties of the fictitious elements and the technological level of the post-apocalyptic society.
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Is that not brilliant and hilarous? An instant sidequest!

I've also generated hundreds of tilesets. I then had to put each into photoshop made grids and picked the individual tiles that I could use. It was/is extremely time consuming but increased my available tilesets by about 400% to date.

I'll post a thread of some of the images in a new thread