Raw LLM Responses

I want to highlight one useful use of AI tools I had recently. I was texturing a low poly chair model for game jam and I wanted to quickly make a normal map (image that adds adds surface detail that interacts with lighting). So I took pictures of my office chair and used an AI model that approximates depth data based on the images and generates normal maps that I then combined to fit the mesh. This was a lot faster than having to model a high detail 3D model and bake the details of it onto a texture. It would have given me a lot more control over the final result, but in a game jam it is better to have a good enough result and move on to the next thing on the list. Polish and redoing assets can be done if there is time left. That is pretty much what I want out of AI. Tools that let me iterate faster, tools that assist me in my work, tools that lets me do cool shit (like approximating depth data based on a image from my phone). I refuse to use generative, prompt based AI. It's fast, but not "I can just look up a free texture library" fast and those texture libraries are higher quality as well. I also really like to make textures out of images that I take. It's a lot of manual work, but it's also so cool to use pieces of the areas I frequent in my work.