I would say that having artists use content from the environment destroying content amalgamating plagiarism machine is a bad use case. Those artists could look at art posted online by other humans (with a much smaller carbon footprint) and still be innovative. Especially when you have 6 seasons worth of a TV show to use for inspiration.

This is different from an artist using AI for inspiration, the studio has had job openings where they were expected to use AI for concept art. They are being told to use AI. They also say that no AI generated assets will end up in the final game, but something will slip through just like it did with Crimson Desert.

So yes, AI is worse than just doing things with the human brain. I’m happy to pay for human labor, I won’t pay for slop.

Too bad they’re using AI

https://www.eurogamer.net/owlcat-gen-ai-expanse-osiris-reborn