🇯🇵 A group of black activists blame Japanese anime for creating light-skinned characters. One girl argues that "because of Japanese anime, there are white fans everywhere so it's harder for black people to cosplay". I'm sorry but how is this our fault? This is not the fault of us Japanese. We make anime for ourselves and some of it goes international. We don't care what you think and how you feel about it. If you don't like "light-skinned characters" (we Japanese are mostly light-skinned) then make your own characters.

Even if you're against AI, I think it's worth trying it for code, to understand how it works. You might even find small ways to automate the tedious parts of development, freeing up more time for the creative work you actually enjoy, without losing what makes your games yours.

A thought: Art comes from a place of expression, so it has meaning baked in and the challenge is in mastering the craft of its production. AI-Art has the craft baked in, so the challenge is in the attempt to make it genuinely meaningful, which is actually much harder.

AI Bros brought that on themselves. They've been taunting people with "you'll be left behind!", "your career is over in 6 months", "you thought you had value as a person because you have a 'skill' lol!?" for 3 years. Couldn't be happening to a nicer bunch of people.

None of you are addressing the problems that AI's critics are bringing to the table. I have no doubt in my mind that AI can be useful in the creative process, but it can also be EXTREMELY detrimental to the creative process because it gives one a false sense of talent.

I don’t mean to complain about AI so much, it’s just so annoying when “advancements” in technology break stuff that was working just fine. I love when new tech betters my life, but lately I’m encountering too much nonsense.

Shigeru Miyamoto shared thoughts on generative AI and its meaning for creativity in game development. He compared AI to the evolution of computers and design tools. As technology handles more technical work, human design sense and creative judgment grow more important. Miyamoto distinguishes between “creating something” and “doing the work.” Creating starts with deciding what to make, building the overall structure, and having clear intention. The work that follows fills in details, polishes, and executes the idea. “People can become so satisfied with the work itself that they start mistaking that satisfaction for having created something good.” Miyamoto believes AI taking over repetitive work could give people more chances to focus on what they truly want to create. “The more AI takes care of all kinds of tasks for us, the more opportunities we all have to think seriously about what it really means to create something.” He acknowledges AI could eventually handle almost everything in the creative process, but for now: “I think there’s still plenty that we humans can do.”