Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/39280394

www.theverge.com/entertainment/827650/indie-developers-gen-ai-nexon-arc-raiders

Gen-AI use is fine if it’s used within good taste and for generating bulk background props and somesuch. It doesn’t make a gamedev any holier or respectable if they torture themselves by hand drawing 1000 unique titles and textures for bookspines for some NPCs bookshelf.

It kind of does though because they aren’t destroying the environment, depriving people of water and electricity, and directly contributing to fascism to make their game.

(If the comment is in good faith then we all know they aren’t using a local AI model run on solar panels for the work)

I literally know a guy who is working on a game using local LLMs and his house runs 100% on solar panels, so I found this comment very funny.