How feasible is it to use AI models (such as ChatGPT) to help make a small game, assuming one has minimal coding experience? Particularly for the scripting process of course.
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AI can help in creating a game, but they can be bad at scripting. I advise you to look at tutorials to learn how to write code yourself - because if there are some bugs, problems in AI scripts, then a person may simply not understand them.
Yes, you can use a AI to finf ideas for games if you don’t have enough ideas yourself.
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AI should only be used for about 2 simple things. One is helping with simple functions that you cant wrap your head around, be sure to learn from this btw, dont just take the easy way out. Secondly, it can be used for identifying errors. This seems to be the extent its useful for, cause it becomes kinda stupid when you ask it a legit question.
So, let it help you learn and find errors, but no dont have it create a whole game for you. It’ll ruin everything with its lack of knowledge and critical thinking abilities.
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The problem with using AI for scripting — and I’ve done this plenty of times because I was too lazy to learn for real — is that when AI messes something up, like creating a bug, you can tell it about the bug and it’ll try to “fix” it. The issue is, AI wouldn’t have given you that broken script in the first place if it actually knew how to fix it. So most of the time, it never truly understands how to solve the bug.
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Yeah it can typically help you fix YOUR bugs, but it never seems to be able to fix its own bugs
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Yeah 
it is sometimes annoying or if I ask it to fix my bug it will completely change the script and create a bug of its own
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Fr, this is why i dont recommend it except for identifying bugs. It wont just fix your bug, it decides to rewrite your script in its own way. And its own way usually just makes the things that did work, stop working.
This is why AI needs to be used very little 
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yes it should not be used very often and that’s why I started using it but I say just identify the bug and give me suggestions not give me a full script. Also using ai will make you worse at coding so I try to minimize my use of it whenever I can. 
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It’s quite bad at programming if you want a bug-free game. Especially once your game gets more complex and you meet 3D bugs. It’s good for learning programming, but it can’t write a game without major flaws.
Also the elephant in the room is that you cannot adjust systems slightly (this will be nessecary for many reasons) without having to do full conversations with an AI. I can’t imagine working on a project and not being allowed to code myself.
i use it sometimes to fix my own script bugs, and also i use it to fix my script identations and readibility. Also to get ideas for my games
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Apart from me finding it unethical to create a WHOLE game with AI, probably not. AI as far as I’ve used it doesn’t necessarily understand concepts the same way we do. It can most definitely be used for help, yes, but definitely not the finished product.
I’d also hope you weren’t planning to use AI to make a whole game, just putting that out there, no intention to accuse or shame if so. 
(still bad imo >:( )
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Why would you want to?
It just seems so disappointing - If you don’t know scripting, learn to script. Same with art. Same with music. Same with everything, ever. Learn to do stuff.
I also think the game would be hacky, and not particularly enjoyable from a player’s PoV, so I personally wouldn’t bother. I also don’t use AI at all for context
Just learn to do stuff. Put effort in. Learning is generally good and you are more than capable of doing so without something doing the work for you.
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