I literally 5 days ago gifted my adult daughter The Witcher 3 Complete Edition for her to play on her new Steam Deck. Kind of irks me to see it $40 cheaper than I paid last weekend. *sigh*

Goh isn't based on anyone either. Chances are they just want to separate the anime story from the game to not be tied to a specific plot. Which is what they did in both Alola and Galar

Ash was not the strongest for most of the series, in fact it was a running joke in the fandom that he would never win. And now he won one time, but who knows he could lose the next.

Thank fucking god. Retire the character so we can have new protags to focus in in each region like how the manga does it.

You’ve done it, Ash, you achieved the Shonen protagonist’s dream of becoming the best, after 25 years.

It’s about time! They should have introduced a new protagonist for every Pokemon gen in the anime. Sticking with Ash all this time was never a good idea. I also think it’s funny that the new protagonist isn’t even based on the default trainer designs for Scarlet/Violet. Likely because those designs are so bad this…

This was a long time coming, but anyone could see that Journeys was meant to be Ash’s Grand Finale.

I mean you could make that pointless comment or you could tell me how it’s different.

“we’re talking about a process that is encroaching on a fundamentally human pastime and creative pursuit.”
Why should we consider that fundamentally human? Human’s do a lot of things. But if you can have a machine do them without the human, it’s hardly fundamentally human.

Could these AI’s be created without the data sets?

You’re on Kotaku and only now you have serious questions about the authors journalistic integrity? Are you new here?

“They’re just making an approximated casserole out of human art that has been fed into it, in the vast amount of cases without credit or compensation”

Seriously, when humans create art they don’t literally layer a bunch of picture one on top of the others and start tracing over the bunch of them using smoothing tool to better blend their features.

The automation of all human labor is a statistical inevitability. It’s tragic, unfortunate, and unavoidable in equal measure.

After reading this, I have serious questions about your journalistic integrity, and would have those questions even if I agreed with you 100%. This is a naked diatribe. I know This site blends “opinion” in with the rest without denoting it as such, but this just reads like blind, babbling rage. I’m interested in takes…

They’re the client. They gave the AI a task and it did all the work. It created the composition, layout, and created the image based on the user’s order.

This. There’s a lot that can be said about the tension between accessibility of art as a pursuit vs the value of art as a commodity, but screaming that it’s not art because it’s too easy is just shallow soapboxing.

Either AI-generated art doesn’t fill the same need as human-made, “real” art or is a threat to artists. Both things cannot be true for a given area of art.

What an absolutely awful article. Are we at the point where the most liberally minded people online are deciding what is and isn’t art? Just wondering if I should check that off on my dumb as fuck world bingo card.

I’ve always admired the work that goes into creating them (both illustrations and photos), and I think the average person has too, which is why so many have become memes over the years.