honestly there’s a lot of focus on it finally selling more console and expectations of it selling a lot more but I.... still don`t see a lot of draw for the PS5 to me and I can’t help but wonder if part of the increase in sales might not be increasingly just to “everyone and their step-mom already have a Switch so…

One the “sharing it with everyone” though I could half-believe it. Or else they would have taken Minecraft away from every consoles that wasn’t a X-box already.

But instead they haven’t and it’s simple; at the end of the day a cut of ALL of those sales go straight to Microsoft.

The same would happen with Call of Duty.…

Honestly a wise estimate tbh.

And like the thing is, it’s hardware that still sells the best, and on a year where hardware sales rose compared to the one before. Like I’m not sure Nintendo want to introduce a new console yet unless they’re absolutely certain they can make the next one compatible with the last one’s…

... the irony is that the narrative structure of a racing game would be perfect for such a game concept because races are quick and fast meaning you can easily always alternate between races(which don’t last a day) and off-the-tracks ”downtime” where social elements and gameplay could occur.

And the other thing i’m thinking of that I think AI art proponents don’t realize. The training data NEED to be kept up to date to be able to tackle new subject. And i’m not talking nebulous things like art style or such.

While I understand your point I think what a lot of artist are fed up with is that so many systems, including what Artstation is suggesting here often put the onus entirely on the artist to make sure their art isn’t automatically uploaded in training data rather than putting that onus on the corporations to not…

Ssomeone did bring the point that text generator AIs borderline became unusable for a time when COVID struck because there was literally no content on its database of training allowing it to answer the subject for several weeks(more?) because it was made before COVID.

Nor do I see it replacing comic tbh .

I think my main worry is less “is this gonna replace artist” and more “is this gonna lead to some stupid ass exec to try to depress artists wages ‘because the AI did most of the concept work already’ “ despite the extent of reworks, corrections, retouches, additional pictures/etc…

Honestly if it means anything I feel like increasingly I’m seeing less and less artists make use of Adobe outside of maybe industry context.

Like I feel it’s telling that Clip Studio Paint tried to add AI generators but then IMMEDIATELY backpedalled when user backlash made it clear this wasn’t wanted and outright…

Or for that matter, can AI art even create something like a mere character reference sheet?

I.e.: I want a front view, a back view, 3 to 4 expressions and they all have to be the same character and RECOGNIZABLE as the same character.

I suspect even the best of generator is going to struggle HARD to figure that one out…

Honestly you seem to be one of the few commenters who really seem to nail the crux of the issue.

Yet a lot of them are still interlinked even if you think them all different subjects that should be tackled separately.

Intelectual property just as much play into the concept of the value of art among many other subjects.

Yeah but generally a shop contest is a *clearly* a shop contest nor does it pretend to be anything but or that it’s going to represent any and all past and future forms of art.

But AI art pretend itself to be the new revolution and future of art forever despite not being able to create anything new the moment it cease…

It’s... not?

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.

But that’s literally how AI art generators work. Just layering different pictures together and smooshing…

We’re at the point where artists are tired that a technology, one who can’t even sketch the most basic of pictures without making a collage made of the art human artists had created in the first place, keep being sold as the next “revolution” of art in an attempt to keep devaluing artists who are already fucking…

The thing this isn’t “a machine that sketch then color and paint a picture on it’s own”.

It’s a “machine that generate an image from an agregate of images that were already sketched and drawn and painted by actual humans.... and without said human creations would not be able to generate outputs no matter how well…

You clearly didn’t read the post just above your own. It’s not the revolution of art, more than just the “automated collage of often stolen art made by actual humans”:

“As many overlook, AI still relies on human labor - it is not creating images or texts out of thin air but needs human input to produce credible…

Like.... re: artist credits.

Out of all things, this was the tiny feature that I loved of Armello.

EVERY cards of the game included credits for the artist who’d done the art/animation of the card.

How many weeks/months will the “average” person go without work and pay between jobs though? Let alone the frequency of such issues as carpal tunnel injuries(seriously more common among artists than some might think, especially those who can’t afford to charge something like this and must take on larger amount of…

“The landscape really does look like PS2-era game, which is particularly jarring against the comparatively highly detailed character models.”

Honestly this bit imo is perhaps the most telling about it not being the hardware.
The Switch is old, but comparatively there’s a lot capable of looking much better with better…