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More production means more slop and more quality stuff, even if it favors the former.

And companies will lower their prices once similar games are made by indie devs who will lower their prices or offer higher quality games for free once beginner hobbyists can create, due to the assistance of AI, what was previously reserved for experienced hobbyists. It's just market saturation at the lowest level that bubbles up the hierarchy. It's just market saturation; exactly the same as what's happening to wages, only that it will affect sales, which is financially bad for everyone but marketers and consumers.

"What genre?" Why would that matter? It's common because it's very easy to create games in, due to certain engines that specialize on that genre, which leads to many similar-looking and usually low-quality games; exactly what you complained about with AI. My argument is that AI is like these engines; it eases creation, which leads to a lot more games being made of that genre and to the entry barrier being lowered to a point where any random dumb idea can be created. But those engines are capable of producing incredibly high-quality games, too, same as AI, if used appropriately. All I wanted to say with that was that using AI, or those engines, does not inherently produce slop, so which genre specifically does not really matter. And I'd rather avoid going into details on which genre I meant.

"I never said it [this platform] did [have to uphold my standards]." Sure, you only said that "quality > quantity", which I just take as meaning "Fewer high-quality games is better than more low-quality games," that your standards for high-quality constitute "doing something properly", whereby "properly" is subjective to your standards (see previous reply), and "if it's made with AI it isn't done properly," which, alongside "I don't want stuff made faster" and "this website has gone to complete shit," made me *somehow* come to the abstruse conclusion that "you don't want more games made with AI, you want games without AI, even if it means fewer, and that this website [platform] does that wrong." So yes, you never said it did have to uphold your standards, only that it's shit for not doing so...

And I specifically highlighted the "because" using asterisks to emphasize that what you said means that you believe people to be using AI specifically for its ability to produce lower quality results compared to other tools. That's the meaning of what you said and, I assume, was likely not intentional, was it?

And yes, criticizing a gift is improper. To be fair, it's only so in the cultures I know of, but that includes internet culture, which is the one that should apply, anyway.

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Companies are not going to lower their prices due to AI, you are delusional.

"Why would that matter?" - You're the one who brought it up, I just asked.

"So yes, you never said it did have to uphold your standards, only that it's shit for not doing so." - Exactly.

"you believe people to be using AI specifically for its ability to produce lower quality results compared to other tools" - AI isn't a tool, hence why lazy untalented people are jumping on AI en masse. It does the work for them and it does it quickly, that's the part that interests them. Quality doesn't interest them, they will publish this worthless slop endlessly.

"And yes, criticizing a gift is improper" - It's not a gift.

"... you are delusional" - I didn't say that, so delusions certainly played a role there. What I said, verbatim, was that companies will lower their prices once similar games are made by indie devs or their prices drop due to hobbyists who use AI flooding the market with free games: same demand but more supply equals lower prices.

"... I just asked" - I was just asking back if it would affect anything and trying to resolve it in case it did, without involving the specific genre, not criticizing you for asking.

"Exactly!" - Exactly! ... Wha...? Uh, sure, it's not the exact same sentence... but you must see how it begets the same... right? Unless you want me to believe that you were satisfied by stating that the platform was shit but didn't want it to change.

"AI isn't a tool ..." - You've just described a tool... That's what all of software and any machine ever did, does, and will do... People use tools because they take some part of an unpleasant, complex, difficult, or repetitive task and make it easier or handle it entirely. Developers don't use IDEs because they look pretty. They're used because you press a single button and, voilà, all 5000 instances of that identifier have been renamed at once. Would you prefer we write down programs with pen and pa– wait, those are tools, too. The guy copy-pasting a page of random code from StackOverflow put in as much effort as the one who asked an AI. You cannot possibly believe that prompting AI to "Make me the best game ever" would actually work. AI's don't do all the work and IDEs do some of the work for you and quickly. Both equally fit your complaint partially. Are you saying that developers who use IDEs are lazy, untalented people? Because developers jumped onto IDEs when they first came about en masse for the very reasons you just gave. And it's the same for every other tool in history.

"It's not a gift" - If something is given to you for free, it is a gift, even if you reject it.