>freeing up those competent modellers to work on more interesting things than the 10,000 chair variants needed for future AAA games. They can work on making unique and interesting characters instead, or novel futuristic models that aren't in the training set and require real imagination combined with their expertise.
Or flipping burgers at McDonald's!
There are only so many games that the market can support, and in those, only so many unique characters[0] that are required. We're pretty much at saturation already.
[0]Not to mention that if AI can generate chairs, from what we have seen from Dall-E & SDXL, it can generatte characters too. Less great than human generated ones? Sure, but it's clear that big boys like Bethesda and Activision do not care.
Or flipping burgers at McDonald's!
There are only so many games that the market can support, and in those, only so many unique characters[0] that are required. We're pretty much at saturation already.
[0]Not to mention that if AI can generate chairs, from what we have seen from Dall-E & SDXL, it can generatte characters too. Less great than human generated ones? Sure, but it's clear that big boys like Bethesda and Activision do not care.