Like any tool it can be used or abused. I'm making an RPG and I wouldn't be able to do so without AI-generated art. As you say, there's slop and lazy content, too, but just saying that AI hurts indie devs is painting with way too broad a brush, imho.
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thats not really a clever stating, as all things in live are nether black or white, there are grey shades. HUMANS are responsible for themself and so everything has a risk of beeing abused, i mean what about weapons ? they are also abused, or what about the bankign system the corrupt politicans of our time, ai aint bad by nature, rather adopts to its trainers, who are human. taking this out of this discussion and right into the nsfw thing, so all these guys complain about the responsiblity beeing taken away to prevent abuse, which is censorship, comeing back to ai topic, so the nature of ai is a mirror of humans who are greedy.....so its always in history if new things come around there are those who just cant stand that time actually moves forward leading to changes and what the final result is entirely humans fault or not, so better thing before you speak...
i want to remind you of the '"assetflips" which were refering to games who used bought or free assets, which acutally isnt even relevant to the games experience, i understand that asset creators have to be transparent about this, but how everything in my games was made doesnt matter and peopel have no right asking about it as long as there aint any copyright troubles appearing... and with ai its the same.....you can speed up as one man army meaning indie game artist
If you're using AI-generated materials - those can't be copyrighted. If you're claiming copyright on a game full of materials that are already in the public domain, you're scamming the people playing/buying the game.
And it's not unreasonable for people to want to know who made the game. There's a difference between "I made this game" and "I grabbed a bunch of free resources and had a bot write parts of this game for me."
If you made the game, and someone liked it, they're likely to enjoy your next game.
If you used a bot/AI generator to write code and generate the pictures... they may not care for your next game, because by that time, the AI software will have changed, and you have no control over what's available through it.