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If you are doing some indie gaming, it can save tons of money on asset generation, you either ramp up and finalize it yourself or hire somebody but for fraction of the time. Ditto for web design, why would anybody but big, calcified megacorps with their ridiculous processes go and buy some stock images if you can get exactly what you want, in any imaginable style?

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It still takes a surprising amount of labour and artistry to get an AI to give you exactly what you want (see also: Pareto principle). Consumer expectations scale proportionally to technological progress, so demand for premium assets and brand differentiators won’t be going away anytime soon; the state of the art has advanced but stock photo business will advance right along with it.

I’d say ai art lets me get to a point where I can justify paying someone. It’s hard to understand a game without decent visuals, even if they’re filled with ai turds.

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