>yeah you are right in terms of concept art; I figured that unfortunately more often than not the lines between concept, mood, detailing etc tend to be blurred depending on who looks at it; Also this is not going to replace individual character design or other specific assets, but might remove scalability issues w/ project that require a huge number of different backgrounds, texture variations.

You can already do that in 3D if the overall concepts have been decided and some basic assets are there. Just switching the textures, lightning conditions, and some predefined building blocks do basically the same thing as this algorithm, except it's already part of the pipeline, and it gives you much more since it's 3D.

The other thing is that these algorithms look indecently good when you see a thumbnail, but very bad if you're looking at it too closely. These cool 'concept art' pieces that look good are 90% of what people see, but they do not represent 10% of the concept art work; most of it are boring details of joints, how the blade is strapped to the costume, how windows open, unsexy stuff as can be (that you can't do with such algorithms).