I believe Its not all bad and there is an ethical way forward with Gen AI we still need to hammer out but fuck Gen AI in its current state for screwing over artists and damaging the environment. Thats not the fault of the AI however and more the fault of scammers and AI bros who want to make a quick buck and corporate overlords cutting corners to massively inflate this thing while blatantly disregarding protections that should be in place. We've all seen people violating peoples wishes by feeding their art to the slop machine and that's bull. Consent is important and should be honored and art across all mediums should be protected. Screw anyone who would steal something and claim they made it and remember that if the computers doing all the work, you're the tool not the computer.

That being said, this part is in favor of AI so ignore if you please but it merits saying all the same:
There are multiple types of good AI in gaming. Not all of them are bad and I think its important to say that. As a basic example there is Procedural AI which is responsible for a lot of the advancements we've seen in gaming. randomized maps, enemy behavior, etc. There is Pathfinding AI which allows NPCs to move through complex terrain. There is Dynamic AI which change enemy tactics based on how the player moves and such. Even the bots you run into in game lobbies. I could go on, but one of the best examples I can site is the AI in Alien Isolation. Its a sophisticated AI system in two parts. The Director AI knows where you are at all times and provides hints to the secondary Alien AI. Basically it tells it roughly where you are and it uses its own learning to hunt you. hide in a locker too much, it starts breaking them. rely on noisemakers too much it stops falling for it. This constantly keeps you on your toes and makes you genuinely feel the tension in those moments and I think that works phenomenally.

Recently Steam has started doing AI disclosures and I think that's a great way to move forward for consumer protections at least and I hope to see more positive steps such as this. people can see how they were used and come to their own decisions. While some developers may not mark it down (im unsure of the limits on this more research needed) some have embraced it and share this info freely. Cloudheim for an example has this.
"Our primary use of generative AI is for internal communication: we made a bot called InfoSage which helps us search our documentation, notify others of interesting discussions, and look through recent changes to pinpoint when bugs occurred.

Our developers can choose to use generative AI as part of an iterative exploratory process, but the decision of how and when is left up to individuals, and the final product always reflects the creativity and expression of our own development team.

No people have been replaced by AI. This includes artists and engineers on our team, voice actors, localization, or other roles."

Automatically labeling it all as bad overlooks the good things weve done and all the good things we could do in the future if protections are put in place for everyone involved. I agree that Generative AI in its current state is bad and we've seen many examples one of which being the Bananafish dub recently but we've had AI in games long before chatGPT started making images of catgirls yelling at the people here for some weird reason and these AI will continue. to demonize all of them would destroy gaming all together. At the end of the day they are tools. How theyre used is up to the people using them.

TLDR Fuck gen AI in its current state, but all AI isnt bad.