It's so weird to me the way people are talking about AI (or rather, algorithms) right now
games have had algorithmic-generated content for years now, and it's good for a few things: making a game slightly less predictable, and also: making it funny
procedural generation has perfected the art of slapstick comedy. Playing a game like Spelunky for example can be a non-stop obstacle course where funny and unpredictable things happen all the time
likewise, watching AI-generated seinfeld a few weeks ago (the less said about how that one screwed up the better) produced a lot of zany and silly content just by letting the chatbot talk on autopilot and putting it in a simple framing device.
(of note: the framing device, models, and backgrounds, were all generated by people, not the machine)
so: they succeeded in one aspect. They made a great comedy-generating machine. WHEN SUDDENLY the AI evangelists, no sooner having done this, suddenly say "this thing can be used to produce dramas"
not just dramas: it can be used to create everything. emotionally resonant TV shows, movies, books, etc... Even to write news articles! Whoa! slow down!
It's a big leap from one of these things to the other. Compare it with how video games use procedural content to aid human-designed games, not to design the entire game.
....So, what would video games look like if it adopted algorithmic content the same way as movies are doing now?
...Imagine a game such as, say, minecraft. it generates fields, trees, and so on. Okay, now imagine it has a name like "FieldsGPT" and it's designed for every single game to use this same engine. every game makes the same flavour of fields, trees, biomes, and no-one questions it. that's just how it is. when you ask someone if there's other kinds of places you could generate, they look at you with confusion.
So instead of carefully-curated procedures to generate dungeons, like, say, spelunky or other such roguelikes, every game was supposed to get a full game out of the same generator
this is how people are planning to algorithmically generate with ChatGPT. they think it's capable of writing in every style, capable of writing with any voice
...the thing about algorithms is the best ones are built from scratch for purpose.
To generate a good algorithmically-generated movie, you'd need to roll your own algorithm from scratch. ...but, er, that's certain to be less exciting for the CEOs and investors currently jumping on the AI bandwagon.