Freelance Ginger

Game Designer | Pasta Enthusiast | He/Him

[Jade Law @jadel4w]

I’m going to discuss this from purely Gen AI art, not code or other tooling.
I just see this narrative a lot and have been thinking about it since Epics concept video.

Speed. Acceleration. Faster.

I don’t understand why “it’s faster” has become the default justification for AI. Faster isn’t automatically better. The value of art has never been measured by the speed of its production.
Instant ramen is faster than making it from scratch. We know it’s not better than made from scratch.
Faster in crafting something rarely means something as good or better.

There’s also a broader cultural issue. Every time we replace a professional artist with a tool because it’s quicker, we create fewer paid opportunities for people to develop into exceptional artists. The industry becomes more efficient at producing images, while becoming worse at producing artists. Critical thinking and creativity declines, so all we end up with is mass-produced meaningless art and a small workforce of diminished creatives. Worse yet the overall talent pool diminishes.

This obsession with speed also reflects a wider trend in modern work: every technology promises to save us time, yet we’re rarely allowed to spend that saved time creating something better. Instead, we’re expected to produce more. If AI lets an artist make ten illustrations instead of one, the commercial incentive is usually to deliver ten, not to spend ten times longer refining the one that matters. The work loses meaning.

Art occupies a strange place because, unlike manufacturing, the process itself has value. With art, the choices, craftsmanship and individual perspective are often what people are paying for. The output is the culmination of that process.

Efficiency can increase output while reducing the very thing that makes creative work meaningful. We’re removing consideration whenever we remove a human from any part of the process.

Yes there will be some higher quality projects, but I guarantee the most creative projects will always be made by those who reject AI art and master their crafts to create something with meaning.

Before everyone comes in and says “yes but games is a business”. It is… and? Do we not laud beautiful games that are the peak of our craft? When the industry keeps laying people off do you really care to defend the business model games currently operates under? Do you only want microtransactions?
Some of us don’t. And well crafted, authentic and creator loved media tends to be more marketable than corpo-slop.

[Vix 🕷️💙 | Celestial Spider Vtuber @starkissedvixen]

Felt helpless. Started a thread of people affected by Bungie layoffs. Please reach out to these people if you can help them find future opportunities. Feel free to add more posts and correct me if I mess up any names or roles, there's a lot to get through...

Eyes up, Guardians.

[Freelance Ginger @freelanceginger]

@ExoSmack When did they add the bumpers at the bottom?

[Freelance Ginger @freelanceginger]

@EntityPsd @BrunoLouviers I think it’s gotta be clearing Atraks-1 on contest. Might not’ve cleared the raid but that moment stands out as a favorite. Are the misc guardians around supposed to be anyone in particular?

[Freelance Ginger @freelanceginger]

@CRdu52 @DestinyBulletn Was this something that happened post TFS? Cause I thought it was pretty obvious that this was a script coming from the black fleet and being given to us by savathun. There was always some heavy second-guessing at the legitimacy of what was written cause of the sources

[Freelance Ginger @freelanceginger]

@CRdu52 @DestinyBulletn What about the unveiling got retconned?

[Freelance Ginger @freelanceginger]

@pizza990 Love that the symbiote suit has the Knight’s horns instead of Hornet’s because it’s made of void

[Freelance Ginger @freelanceginger]

@pere_albacar Woah the style of your game is really cool. Do you have any breakdowns on how you developed that look?

[Freelance Ginger @freelanceginger]

@Jam2go I prefer the second because when the word appears as the narrator is speaking it your brain is usually able to process the written one before the spoken. At least to me it makes it feel more like a TikTok than a transcription

[Freelance Ginger @freelanceginger]

@pacificrim44 @TopGyaru All genAI steals art, it’s part of how it functions. It runs deeper than just copying someone’s art style, each and every image is trained by pictures and art from across the internet

[Freelance Ginger @freelanceginger]

@Phantom49635033 @nizelix Nope, it’s been confirmed and written multiple times that she’s a hunter in lore cards. Deceiving looks but it’s true

[Freelance Ginger @freelanceginger]

@kriketschirping @keyboardFungus @wrobbee @TheChopingBlock Where are you getting that illegals are taking up 30% of the American workforce? The number is actually closer to 5% - of which many are very low income jobs. Most of the money they earn goes back into the US economy to pay for their housing and food

[Freelance Ginger @freelanceginger]

@thatonebarcode Got it on Steam

[Freelance Ginger @freelanceginger]

@sevikuh :(

[Freelance Ginger @freelanceginger]

@RRollplaying Sharing again cause I think this is the sweetest thing. I made a Paladin Oath of the Altar subclass. Similar to devotion but more specific to spouses and very focused on ally support 😁

https://t.co/82GAB9bsL7

[Freelance Ginger @freelanceginger]

Honoring the sacrifices of a great titan whose power of the aegis we carried through to the end
#fotl2024

[Freelance Ginger @freelanceginger]

@RRollplaying I actually made a subclass specifically for something like this! I call it the Oath of the Altar :)

https://t.co/82GAB9bsL7

[Black Tabby Games @blacktabbygames]

Days mean nothing in the maw of forever. I never left your side.

Slay the Princess - The Pristine Cut is out now.

[Freelance Ginger @freelanceginger]

@projectzalix Really brings you down to earth, can’t wait to see what’s coming next

[Zalix @projectzalix]

The news is finally out! We're working on a collaborative interactive narrative experience called...
PROJECT ZALIX!
Not to brag, but it's very cool & we can't wait to share more details with you in the coming weeks.
Stay tuned for more info @ ProjectZalix everywhere.🤖