>>1424812
Someone noted that the use of AI in TH19 is limited to four of the new characters: Enoko, Biten, Chiyari, and Hisami. All of which are Zanmu's pawns. They aren't the only new spell cards, so the use of AI was specific to just them. It does seem like ZUN is using AI with intent.
>>1424888
Japanese corporate culture tends to lean against firing people (once you're hired, you tend to be hired for life, and the older you are the harder it is to get rid of you). I expect that you won't see many jobs lost in Japan, but once those jobs get "retired" I don't see them getting replaced. It's a problem that's going to impact the younger Japanese, each generation more profoundly than the last. In contrast to America and Europe where people are already being laid off.
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>>1425042
I think it's a bit disingenuous to chalk it up to just a few Westerners, since I've seen a good amount of Japanese people post about it. Though they tend to be not Touhou fans because Touhou artists, the people who are most certainly to be against AI, don't want to bite the hand that feeds them and get swarmed by AI bros like IceFairy did (I fucking hate that this timeline has made me feel bad for him)
I fnd it a bit funny you mention it being against the "freedom and flexibility" of the series, when I personally see the use of AI as against the soulfulness, handcrafted, and imperfect nature of the series and fanbase. I guess different people get different things out of it.
>>1425865
This part I find infuriating about this discussion is that generative AI gets grouped with other AI because marketers decided to call everything AI these days (technically none of it is true AI) so if you say you dislike AI in art people will say that deepl is AI so "gotcha better luck next time bub" and I don't see anyway to fix it
>>1426032
AI is going to peak a bit faster than people expect. AI image generation has improved but still struggles with many of the same problems it had at the beginning. This won't stop companies from doing their damnnest to replace warm bodies with it though as long as it's good enough.
Also, one thing that hasn't been stated about this AI stuff that shocks me is that
this is the third fucking game about AI I'm so sick of it get a new hyperfixation ZUN you talk about this in the print works and this is the third fucking game holy shit it's not that interesting please talk about anything fucking else you bitched about Trump being older than Harris I'd prefer a game about that at this point than fucking AI AGAIN