From a neutral standpoint I find this conversation so tired, the anti Ai side will always see red when it comes to Ai. Honestly both sides have a point, it can help your creative process, but some people also use it as an excuse to be lazy. Let’s dig deeper I’ve been in some communities where they’ve set up their own LLM and the result of the art looked human realistically made, the problem is trying to lie and claim you created it I have no problem if it’s upfront. I’ve also seen people posts slop and it seems they didn’t even try, that’s where my problem comes from. I also notice the anti Ai are just rude for no reason tbh, I saw someone use chat gpt as a reporter/media for a sports game asking questions and the comments were like use your imagination lazy ***??? I don’t see the problem with it being used that way. Now writing a whole story like what happened with COG yeah no that’s being lazy and unimaginative, you can use it for ideas and helping give story pointers or how to improve dialogue, but with that you also want to put your own words into account. “Just commission” not everyone can afford it actually I remember seeing a few artists say they’d make some art for some people if they promise not to use Ai art again. I think you won’t even need art once your game gets popular enough tbh I’ve seen some make art for free for their favorite games. Yes just what the world needs for more regulations restricting what Ai can be used for. Just know that’ll be worse because the big corporations already are using Ai the only be who will suffer from regulations are the everyday people lol. Ai is only going to get better and better it’s a growing industry billions being put into it which is scary I believe, like I watched someone use Claude 3.7 (which is one of the best for coding) at work on multiple projects and he said he only had to correct it and put it on track a few times. The thing about Ai is the everyday person does not care truly if they’re not in online spaces they just see something made by Ai and think cool, seriously I showed some friends who aren’t in these spaces some Ghibli Style Ai when it was trending a few weeks ago, and they just thought it was cool and wanted to do it themselves. It’s a losing war. I have problems with the people who use Ai at times, some are very cringe. Honestly the way some of you think is hilarious, because you would be the first one’s to critique someone writing style and then wonder why some run to Ai. I probably won’t read someone who clearly isn’t a good writer stories, but also won’t read a story clearly written by Ai. There’s a middle ground to be found. Funny to look back in the old days like 80’s, 90’s people dreamed of having Ai do everything now in reality they realize the damages. I just wish people kept the same energy, like in the US I’ve seen people complain about Ai, but then use self checkout ironic to me. Just my 2 cents. Ai should not be a tool you use to do everything for you, it should be like an extension to help you. I’m sorry, but the truth is humans will always take the free option over paying every time. It’s the way the mind works.