[palata]

> It may not sell ten million copies, but it doesn't need to.

Have you ever spoken to independent game developers? They don't want to sell millions, just enough to live from it. Well that's hard.

> Or it might be great that all of those artists now have free time to do their own art.

Some of them actually want to make a video game. But the risk is that non-artists will be able to make games with generative AIs (which trained on data that the authors - artists - did not agree on sharing this way).

You can say "yeah yeah, it's progress, some jobs disappear, etc". But I still have to note the irony: generative AI was trained from the work of artists to steal the job of those artists, and everybody seems to find that it was "fair use" of their intellectual property...