And the industry isn’t even trying to hide it anymore. I know it’s a dead horse conversation but there are so many horses. 
How do we take back the art in our games? This isn’t rhetorical.

I really don’t think we can. Things are different now, and they’re never going back the way they were. I am struggling hard to come to some level of acceptance, but I am not there yet. I often think I would rather give up gaming than play AI games, and I probably will if things get to that point. I’m okay with that. I am elderly and have other hobbies, but quitting games would leave a void since it’s been a significant part of my leisure activity for so many years.

If I were the boss of the world, I would cancel AI and Facebook and the whole corporate-oligarchy thing. But I’m not <sigh>.

AI is taking over everything and it is advancing almost without our control and understanding with geometric progression. We are heading either to extinction, either to a plutocratic dystopia or the most plausible scenario (and most unprobable) to a workless utopia