Yeah I'm fine with replacing generic stuff with generic AI stuff. Or cutting out the boring part, nobody needs to spend hours manually lip-syncing character or generating thousands of intermediate movement animation steps.

When genAI started making waves my first thought literally was how awesome it would be to flesh out NPC dialog.

It’s immersion breaking to try and talk to a random character only to hit a loop of one or two sentences.

How awesome would it be for every character to be able to have believable small talk, with only a small prompt? And it wouldn’t affect the overall game at all, because obviously the designers never cared to put in that work themselves

GenAI doing chore work is IMO the best use case