Clair Obscur's narrative lead says while it's 'a painful process' to write, AI has never tempted her: 'The whole point of writing is to express what I have in my head'

A dark haired character from Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 stands in the sunlight looking upward with her allies standing behind her.

One of the most irritating facets of the AI hullabaloo—as someone moderately invested in making things—is the assertion that AI finally 'unlocks creatives to make bigger, better things' or some other codswallop.

Bah, I say—the truth being that creative arts like writing, drawing, painting, or acting are immensely complicated professions, and when I look at AI, I look at a very complicated Google search that fills me with about as much creative motivation as… well, a Google search.