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This is absurdist doomsday technology. People like to say it is an efficiency boost. I think those people are misinformed. It's completely job replacement for someone who builds software. The eventuality of this technology is that computers program themselves. Game design is accomplish by just saying, "Let there be a game with XYZ." The art department over in Claude Opus's brain understood prompts like "give that NPC a beard since he's a dwarf" and "spawn a telescope doodad next to him for him to use" and "no I want the dwarf fortress to be much bigger! Make it bigger!" and other prompts that have no basis in technical knowledge reality at all. Why would you ever, ever want to buy and play a game on steam if you can just say "Give me a game that works in XYZ way" and since AI is allowed to steal from anything, it may as well steal all games on steam and then update them for you too?

I gave it a copy of Frozen Throne patch 1.22 from the old days and told it to add more races to the dropdown. On its own, it downloaded and executed tools for extracting MPQ contents out of the game, navigated the contents to find the user interface and script definition files, and then recompiled them back into a modified game client with a modified MPQ that included chooseable races on the out-of-game map setup menu such as Corrupted Night Elf, Fel Orc, Draenei Lost Ones, Naga, and High Elves. Obviously it was using graphics and unit type information from inside the original game that I had provided but this is still completely ludicrous that an AI would accomplish that based only on a prompt of "hey i want more races, add more races and make them work."

How is this not absurdist doomsday technology? What happens next?

Great movie. Indeed, there's highly pertinent worry especially when originality could fade to oblivion and recycling deep learning/generating could just become a living lie and reality a hodge podge of info blending without any regards to origins or even a rule or decency based future.
But my hope is we won't go that path, at least not too soon and such tools can be what they should be, tools, not replacements.

For the adventure game I was talking about where I kept asking it to build out the world as I walked around, I would be really interested to know if there are people who made things in the past that it was pulling directly from. For example, on the dwarf fortress that it created for me there is a dwarf standing on the room with a telescope in this 2D game. It generated the art for the telescope not using one of those AI art generators but with code. It wrote software tools which produced the telescope graphic using vector shapes.

Is this "originality fade" for this graphic? It said it was a brass telescope for a dwarf. Where did it come from? What is the source of this graphic? Is it not original?

We should rely less and less on AI. It is just a fad for investors and only devalues creativity.