Yeah, that’s basically what I was trying to imagine. It’s absolutely not what contemporary AI is, but it’s closer to how I think the technology should be used.

I mean they mostly used it for textures, right? Those are often generated from a combination of noise and photography, it’s not like they were building the game out of lego bricks of other people’s art.

I don’t see how it’s significantly different than sampling in music, it’s just some background detail to enhance the message of the art.

Obviously modern AI is a nightmare machine that cannot be justified, but I could imagine valid artistic uses for the hypothetical AI you described.

And if it’s SQLite (which I believe is the default) it’s really just reading and writing a file on the file system.

So like the size of a horse?

The average horse is about half the height and weight of the average giraffe. Giraffes are just a really bad unit of measurement, males weight about 400kg more than females and there is a wide height difference over their global population, they are technically four different species we just all call giraffe 🦒