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'We Own Up to This Oversight and Apologize for Any Upset Caused': 1666: Amsterdam Developer Admits Using AI Assets, Says They'll Now Be Replaced (www.ign.com)
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[–] marighost@piefed.social 3 points 10 hours ago

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.