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You are missing an important point. It significantly lowers the barrier to make a game, if you have a good idea.

Like I said, you can get an entire game world (maps, artwork, backgrounds, character sprites, weapons, vehicles, animation, sound effects, music) by clicking a few buttons in the Unity asset library. The barrier to entry for making a generic cookie-cutter game that a thousand people have made before is already nonexistent.

Agreed. The power of SD is actually in its diverse styles. You should be able to aim at any specific style in latent space and get it. This is in contrast with Midjourney, which heavily favors sci-fi modern style.

With either tech, this thread is a very cynical take. If you give generic prompts, you get generic results. Want something personal, get personal and you will get personal results out of the AI.

The barrier to creation has been lowered. But, when you can create anything, you still have to dig to figure out what you actually want.

> Heck you can probably import it directly from Unity's asset store without even bothering with Stable Diffusion.

Try actually doing this though and it'll look like an absolute mess. You'll end up without any sort of cohesive art style and you'll have random variations in quality level. The thing about this AI generated stuff is that what it lacks in 'peak talent' it more than makes up for it in being able to actually produce something cohesive.

> You'll end up without any sort of cohesive art style and you'll have random variations in quality level.

Oh look: exactly the result with AI tools.

Did you miss the point where the author went through multiple variations, had to construct intricate prompts and do quite a lot of manual work for the end result to be half-decent?

And you’re missing the point that that large effort was less effort than other ways to get a prompt working

No you can't. They'll be from different people and use mutually incompatible shaders. And in the case of unity, mutually incompatible renderer plugin versions ..

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