HOLY BASED
Has the collapse of the horse drawn carriage industry negatively affected your life? What about the vast drop in demand for coopers, furriers, farriers, and Masters at Arms to train our young men in the sword dueling they will need to win an attractive wife or settle petty arguments? What about the loss of our asbestos insulation industry or New York's manure scoopers?Technology marches on as usual, and it's not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. Somehow everything just kept on going, the world never ended, and all those manure scoopers got different jobs. If you're REALLY worried about AI, then become a plumber. The AI revolution isn't going to install a watermane or replace your water heater.
That is great news! A.I. text and images have no place in WoW.
"Art is just another job" is the silliest, most consoomer-brained "I JUST WANT MY SLOP AAAAAAAAA" mindset anyone could possibly have. Technology can't obviate a fundamentally human function. AI isn't going to replace the act of creating art anymore than it can replace the act of eating. Also, no one is asking for the creation of art to be automated except for the people responsible for paying the artists (and the consoomer-brained content addicts in these replies, apparently). Jobs are automated out of existence largely because they're a inefficient and no one actually wants to do them on their own. We don't hire peasants to pick crops by hand anymore because we have giant machines to do that efficiently, but the crops still need to be planted and harvested.As it exists now "AI" is just a machine that copy-pastes data from a massive (plagiarised) collection of human-created data. Anything created by 'AI' is by definition derivative. If humans stopped creating art AI would eventually be forced to copy-paste itself, over and over, a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy until the output is a garbled, miserable mess. (This is already happening). You can hand a man a novel and tell him to rearrange the words into something coherent, but there's only a finite number of outcomes before he needs to start looking for new novels to start rearranging.
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Good. Generative AI has a massive load of issues with it, and a couple of the big ones being that computers inherently can not understand what they are generating, and that generative AI models are riddled with so many basic level mistakes because of it, anyone wanting to 'create' with it would need to spend so much time fixing those mistakes, it'd just completely not be worth it at all. We can give blizzard all the hell we want for bad writing, models, or whatever, but at least they're made by actual people and not AI slop- at least a real person tried and didn't take the laziest route.
I wonder when exactly did they do the armor related change for artists, because it wasnt so long ago, that we only had 4 armor sets - one for each armor type. I also dont feel like we are having that many more armors though (compared to lets say MoP). What extra there is is put on the game store or we get recolors of the things we already have on Trading post, while the raid armor sets are the same thing over and over. Shamans get wolves slapped on them, hunters get some other animal or bird feathers, etc. The same stuff, just different packaging.
The comments advocating the use of AI disappoint me. As an artist myself, I do believe using AI to enhance your work can be okay to a point. But it should never replace or be implicated to create "original" artwork. I see nothing wrong with using it to assist artists like re-fitting the armors or animations of one model to another. I know how time-consuming that can be. And as I said before, I also don't think it's terrible to use for enhancing their work. That said, there is a limit to using AI though and, for now, I do believe Blizzard is respecting that line. Anyway, this is just my personal opinion on the matter.