>My point is that a million makers on a million joycons couldn't generate enough commercially viable content for a single game. So what hope does GPT have?
Your criticism is that the AI doesn't create new game functionality, even though it doesn't have access to create new game functionality?
That's an artificially impossible bar you're setting for the AI. Maybe if it did have access to create new functionality it would be able to?
That's exactly my point. The path to new game content can't be reduced to putting the blocks in the right place. You also have to come up with new mechanics out of thin air, consider the educational burden of your mechanics, the emotional tempo, how the level plays for different player types (speedsters, young players), how the mechanics reinforce the theme of the zone you're in, and more.
What I am pushing back against is the idea that since GPT can assemble blocks, that it's somehow approaching game design.
Your criticism is that the AI doesn't create new game functionality, even though it doesn't have access to create new game functionality?
That's an artificially impossible bar you're setting for the AI. Maybe if it did have access to create new functionality it would be able to?