[Off Topic] - Why Is A.I. Generated Content Like Music & Images Looked Down Upon In Video Games?

You answered your own question:

Other reasons:

  1. It consumes tons of power, raising electricity prices for anyone who lives near a data center.
  2. It consumes tons of water, and tons of power, both of which are very impactful of the environment.
  3. It takes away jobs. Video game players are aware of this and want to protect the video game industry.
  4. LLMs are trained on stolen copyrighted content. Suno is currently being sued for doing that.
  5. It is replacing the jobs of creatives. Boycotting is a way to protect jobs. Soon LLMs will be able to create full games with Suno-style music and AI-generated art. How will you feel about competing financially against LLMs who can make the same game you do in a few minutes, when it takes you months to do the same?
  6. People can see AI slop in pictures. There’s a homongenous effect that takes over much AI art. It is much harder to detect AI music. (According to studies, 95-97% of people cannot tell the difference.) It becomes much easier to detect AI music when you use lyrics with acronyms, homonyms, or multiple singers. (Suno is really bad at letting you pick who sings what.)
  7. And while people realize jobs will be replaced, that doesn’t mean they like it. It’s similar in some ways to the Luddite movement in the early 1800s when industrialization was being introduced, putting people out of work.
  8. It is a highly subsidized loss-leader. Which means that even when people charge you to use it, the cost to them to run it is MUCH more than what they are charging users. They are losing money, and relying on investors to pay the difference - betting that later it will become cheaper and they can raise prices once they’ve hooked people on using it.
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