I agree, and wasn’t attempting to justify the use of generative AI (I myself am vehemently against it). I’m not sure what the solution is here besides to stop using it; if I were a game dev, I may find myself tempted to use it because I have little artistic skill, if I had no other resources for art. On the other hand, I’d boot up MS Paint and start crudely drawing my assets until I got a real artist, but I suppose that’s hardly presentable.
If they told us that they used a locally hosted model to generate assets based on their own art, that would be perfectly acceptable. But we know that’s not happening.
I agree, and wasn’t attempting to justify the use of generative AI (I myself am vehemently against it). I’m not sure what the solution is here besides to stop using it; if I were a game dev, I may find myself tempted to use it because I have little artistic skill, if I had no other resources for art. On the other hand, I’d boot up MS Paint and start crudely drawing my assets until I got a real artist, but I suppose that’s hardly presentable.
If they told us that they used a locally hosted model to generate assets based on their own art, that would be perfectly acceptable. But we know that’s not happening.