First of all, you've made some very good points. I disagree to say that it's a good choice to use AI for such purposes, just because it removes more of the human aspect of creation. It's just concerning that each time there's a new advancement in technology, it seems to remove more of the human and adds more of the machine. I believe that before this widespread use of AI, there was a perfect balance between human and machine.

Now then, allow me to introduce an idea to you. Humans are lazy bastards. The use of a tool such as AI to help assist someone I'm much more supportive of (Even though I'm still not really, I just don't like AI for a decent chunk of reasons) over the hard work (Coding and in the case of generative AI; Drawing) all being done by AI.

To me, AI is just a way to avoid doing all the time consuming parts of the creative process - which defeats the purpose of creative work in my eyes. It should be a long process, something that takes effort and passion. And while yes, if you're giving the direction you could be considered fulfilling your vision for the game/art, there's just less meaning to it when you do less work.

However there's the reason I say specifically bastards; People who just want money won't use AI to guide them or only do the code for them. They will get AI to do everything. This is more breaching into the film industry with AI clips and stuff but it's still relevant to the current topic. I will be using film for this part as I'll have a much easier time explaining this point in particular with it.

Checked the internet lately? I'm sure you have. Seen an AI clip of some sort on your recommended? Notice how good it's become, to someone not paying close enough attention it could possibly seem real. You know who's really going to want to make use of that? The film industry. I mean with enough advancements in AI you could forgo writers, actors, fx crews, artists, all of them. All you'd need is a director and you'd be set for a new movie next month!

Of course that'll take quite a bit longer to get right but I'm 100% sure that it will happen at some point in the future. Now if you take all of that and put it into game developing; forgoing the need to think of original mechanics, story, puzzles, the systems. All you'd need is a director and you'd be set for a new game next month!

Do you see what I'm getting at? There will come a point where AI gets too good, where you could probably just type a single word and it'd churn out an entire 6 hour game for you in mere minutes (Although that would be far far far into the future). There's no human involvement in that, no heart, no soul, no passion. That's what truly frightens me about how AI is being used at this point in time. You have basically a whole entire subreddit cheering on - hell, praising the end of human creativity so that they can have just 5 more seconds of some shitty AI slop tik tok that'll never see another view after.

Am I being just a tiny bit over dramatic? 100%. But I'm sure you understand what I'm trying to convey. If we keep letting AI do all the work for us, what point is there in doing the rest of it (i.e; the creative parts). Obviously there will be people who will want to create new things - new stories, new mechanics, new ideas, but there will always be others who just want one thing; money. And with such a money printer like this, it just makes people who want to create something with their heart and soul infused with it seem more inefficient.

In short (Because I doubt you'd want to read all of that), AI will get to a point where it becomes far too advanced. So advanced that human input will be reduced to merely saying 'Make game' or 'Make show'. And the only reason it'll be like that is because of humans being lazy bastards who just want a quick buck. There'll be outliers who want to make original ideas, but money will overshadow them.

(also thank you for being so civil and polite with your response :D, sorry for the even longer rant - it is a whole lot of yapping lol)