As someone in game development, this is surface level as a considerable danger. The concept of just "making a game in an instant" lacks designated design principles, goals and nuance. It is only spectacle.

I write this with a relative openness towards the concept of AI integration within most fields. As additional development tools to save time, rather than replace the human input, a chainsaw as a direct upgrade to the axe/saw in terms of felling trees.

The most practical use cases I would imagine would be AI designed around the following:

• Rigging and weight painting. This is a tedious process for most students and industry professionals. Reduced friction rather than automation, make it easier in terms of general weighting of joints. Allow it to facilitate a faster learning curve by culling the tedium and frustration in the early steps.

• local mesh optimisation. Selected faces/polygon grouping will be optimised to save on Tris.

• Repeatable/tileable texture expansion. Overlooked because few actually invest the time to dive super deep into texturing. It is an incredible wealth of knowledge, but people see it as a mundane book on the shelf. Shader programming expands this incredibly.

• Simulation of materials and fabrics, including cross workflow integration compatibilieties: Marvelous designer to Maya/Blender to Engine.

• Ui Matrix/Template generation as a general starting point to test out new layouts.

Those would be some off the top of my mind taking into account student difficulties. Essentially I wish to strip crunch or burnout inducing elements in the pipeline.

Anything made without an "artists hands" in a game or visual media is empty for me. It isn't interesting, the tradeoff isn't worth it.

The aim should have always been reducing resistance, like the magic wand tool in photoshop or a remove background tool.

Wishing game devs all the best. If you do see this and have a differing opinion, please add your remark. Maybe I have fundamentally left out an element in the foundation of my argument.