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AI is ok for hobby projects and non traditional search requests.

It's not ok to use as a replacement for humans, and there are signs, that a lot of the ai hype is actually a scam. As in, the companies can not deliver what they promise. Similar to quantum computer companies. They just advertise and promote the ai usage everywhere they can and hope they can deliver.

Yes, you can simulate on the quick something that resembles the work you need. But it's shallow and crumbles on inspection. The fact that AI can hallucinate and invent "facts", just to please you, should tell you all you need to know about it. But it gets worse. Not only it can not deliver as promised, it is also much more costly than human work for some tasks.

If you need a proof of concept prototype or a throwaway concept image, it might deliver, since something that resembles the thing you need, is the thing you wanted.

Thing is, those ai system do not understand what they are talking about or creating. We are not yet at a stage where we have robots like in science fiction stories. And it is unclear, if the generative ai tech can get there at all.

As a side note, the fact that you do can produce convincing works with ai, just exposes how little is needed in some fields to not be found out as an impostor.

is now the time to get into modern art and make a fortune on ai grifting?

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Is there money to be made with that?

Art is not function. People need to be willing to pay for art. And my overall impression is, that they are not willing to pay for ai "art".

For games it is slightly different. A game is a complex thing and more than the sum of its parts. So you might get away with using ai made parts.

Just look at https://itch.io/games/top-sellers/tag-ai-generated and compare to https://itch.io/games/top-sellers .

 Some slop creators sure try it. But those "devs" previously released other types of shovelware. Slop is nothing specfic to ai. And the games using ai parts that seem successful do not look like slop.