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I am agree. When i said the bubble will burst i don't mean like AI will disappear. But it will be something more like the early internet. (dot-com bubble) Or like with videogames in the 80's (videogame crisis of 1983). And like you said, AI will integrate in society. The same way internet, videogames, music, TV,  etc, did.

And yes, AI will never replace human mind and decision making. It's a tool. Perhaps it will increase the bar of quality standards but not more.

(What i mean is, for example, now indie devs can use pre-made game engines like S2, Unreal or Wicked to create realistic graphics without the need of a huge investment).

'The real question for now would be safety of the customers, transparency of the AI products, user privacy and cultural/social impact.' 


I think that depends from us, both as game devs and human beings. Since years we could barely trust in internet for reliable info (Unless you know where to search.) And sadly, with AI i think the phenomenon will not stop but increase.Perhaps that's good? the more people trust less in internet, the more people will spend their time out there, or become harder to scam, or prone to double check info? That could be a problem for social networks but video streaming services, or games stores may be the less affected.  IDK.

And about AI use. I think the best is try to use local AI instead of online. Using things like GPT4ALL, Koboldcpp or LMStudio for local LLM models (i mean ChatGPT like models) , or using things like SD 1.5 / SDXL (image generator models). More privacy, no ToS.


I think the only thing  we can do is to adapt to the new world and help our friends/family/loved ones to adapt as well. 

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Okay now I understand your point, thanks for explanation! This is reasonable approach to the topic and I agree with it, especially with local AI usage, I think PewdiePie is doing something like this but I didn't dive into it... I just hope that local models will not become something like Tamagotchis in early 20s (that's kinda a big flex comparing AI to japanese toy collection lol). It was personalized, technologically appealing and interactive, but it remained one-time hit and didn't stick into our culture that much

Tamagotchis? thats a name i didn't hear in a long time. hahaha. You know you can still buy them right? XD.

I don't think local AI will become something similar because even companies need them. For example, if you are a big company and want or need to use AI (any kind) for something. You can use a third party AI But that means sharing private info with the third party ai's owner. So if you want to have your own, local AI running in consumer grade hardware is more cheaper and easy to maintain, customizable and upgradeable than a complete datacenter. 

Also, i think Local AI (like anything local) will still be alive as much as a market for that exist. This may be the only thing that gave us, the end user, a small and sometimes huge amount of power. The less people use cloud-ai's -> the less profitable is -> less companies trying to push it. (This applies with anything.)  Also, alternatives exists since always: In a world dominated by Adobe you can find Affinity, Inkshape,Krita, Gimp, Paint.Net. In a world dominated by Cinema4D or 3DS there is Blender. In a world desktop is windows there is Linux and Mac. None better or worse but different. 

But in a world where most of people is used to use Netflix or Spotify premium (easy of use over privacy), well, it makes me don't put my hopes too high.

And even that, we already have plenty of open source and local AIs (SD, Wan, LLama,Quen,Deekseek,Gemma,LTX,DiffRymth). I also tried one LLM that ran locally in my android phone. (It was slow and heated the phone a bit, but it was something. XD).

Sorry for all the text. I need to learn when to shut up. 

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