I think this is probably true in the short term, but in the long term I think the ability of AI to create art will outpace the need for more new assets. Right n

I think this is probably true in the short term, but in the long term I think the ability of AI to create art will outpace the need for more new assets. Right now there's definitely cleanup that needs to be done on AI-generated stuff, but the need for that will diminish quickly. I'd be shocked if by the end of the decade we still had artists cleaning up AI work. Games may need 1000x the assets they do now, but if AI is 10000x faster at creating them than humans are, then you're still going to see a big reduction in the number of humans needed. Eventually we'll get to the point where the game's AI is procedurally generating assets during gameplay (and eventually you'll get AI just generating the games).