…Right, which is why the rest of that quote which you truncated for some reason was, “(except people who make it and wish other people would like it)”

It forecloses art as a career, thereby depriving future generations of evolution in style and professional craft.

I hate AI art too, but I don’t think it’s so bad as that. It’s terrible because it uses obscene energy and steals art. But that doesn’t mean anyone actually likes AI art (except people who make it and wish other people would like it).

If you tell me your “art” is AI, then I instantly lose interest (with very rare exceptions that generally use older types of AI, like MGMT’s “When You Die” music video"). Momentarily disregarding economic considerations, AI “art” is to real art as over-processed food is to whole-food, made-with-love meals. Will some people eat it, for whatever reason? Sure. But are Twinkies competing with fine dining? No. I’m interested in art for the relatable human element. If that’s emulated, then you can only hold my interest until that fact is revealed. AI artists can only be disinteresting or deceitful, there’s no third option.

I think the primary differentiating factor will just be the nature of the world. 16 quintillion planets is going to feel WAY different than 1 massive one. HG also implied that LNF will be an MMO - something I, frankly, still have a hard time believing given NMS’s network issues, but I can’t imagine they’d overpromise again.

“Hello Games is procedurally generating just a single instance of this planet, one which every player (and everything the build, discover, and name) will exist on simultaneously.” - GamesRadar