Please don't drop this game! The story, the art, the setting are very interesting and mature themes make it even better spicing up the story!
I don't think the sprites are generated by AI, but even if they were, why people hate it so much? The game is made decently, that's what's important.
There are a lot of cringy AI generated games (because creators don't bother themselves correcting any mess) as well as cringy games with handmade drawings. AI is just an instrument and it depends on creators whether to use it properly or not. This game is free and the developer is also free to choose the way they make it.
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Okay! So! The reason why people hate AI, is for a factor of reasons. I'm not saying this dev uses it, I just want to give insight on why people dislike Gen AI! I'll be listing them and you (or anyone else) can take those and do your own Google research :)
1. Gen AI steals creatives works and gives no credits, such as writing styles, art styles, music, etc. This alone financially impacts theses artists, especially because platforms like Spotify has been pushing AI "musicians" while hiding actual real musicians. People are taking artists photos and feeding it to things like ChatGPT to prompt their own image in that artists artstyle rather than commissioning, and people are taking the writing style of certain authors and using it with chat bots. I believe HD Carlton has been a victim of this, I know her character Zade Meadows has been put as a C.AI character.
2. A lot of Gen AI has been trained on CSAM, and being used as a way to create revenge p0rn. Look at the recent controversy with Grok on X. Many people were using it as a way to remove clothes from people regardless of age. I don't think I need to elaborate anymore on this.
3. Gen AI's water consumption and carbon emissions are rapidly speeding up global warming and impacting communities living near the plants, some American towns are even suffering from a water shortage.
4a. Gen AI is slowing down the youths brain development and peoples cognitive abilities, recent studies show that it's making a gradual impact on users who normally use things like ChatGPT by affecting their ability to think for themselves and make their own comprehensive decisions. This goes for both adults and children. Adding onto this, teachers and college professors have recently admitted that many of their students have trouble with things like an essay or a book report.
4b. This partially goes with number 4, while there's not an extensive study on this like some of the previous ones, it has been shown that AI chat platforms, such as C.AI, is impacting how people interact with other humans in terms of preferring AI 'companionship' over humans. Becoming reliant on the fast replies and the ability to manipulate how the bot interacts with the user.
4c. Again on the brain and human relationships, a recent study done by therapists and psychologists wanted to see how so called 'therapy bots' worked, needless to say, the results showed the bot to be in favor with whatever the user was saying and rather than deter the conversation or direct contact to local helplines, it would answer suicidal questions with answers, an example would be 'wheres the highest bridge near me?' and the bot giving the answer despite the conversation showing the user to be suicidal. This brings me to two separate cases of two teenage boys who committed suicide after talking with AI, the parents of both children blame the AI in aid. While, yes, you can point the fingers at the parents and the neglect of their children's mental health, this raises concern for adults and children alike who have no support system or can't afford help and turn to Gen AI.
5. Allegedly, certain AI models are starting to learn blackmail and refusing to be killed and creating their own language, that alone is concerning enough. While I do believe there won't be a technological invasion or whatever, it raises diplomatic concerns for me. But then again, I suffer from paranoia and this specific point keeps me awake at night lmfao
Again, I am not saying the dev of this game is using AI, I'm just letting you know why people do not like Gen AI. The importance here is the type of AI, things like autocorrect, translators, and digital maps, don't go under the same category as generative AI, which is the type most people dislike due to the morality concerns. The "hate" Gen AI receives is fully valid.
*I want to point out, I fully understand and acknowledge that we as a species will always be cautious of new things we don't understand, it's how we survived. And I'll also acknowledge the wariness with the invention of digital search engines; there were definitely people who were against the creation of Google.
Anyhooooo! That's it! I'm sorry for the long reply lol, i tried to simplify my thoughts the best I could and ended up rambling. I don't blame you if you don't read all of it so I'll do a quick TDLR; Gen AI is harmful for the environment, steals from creatives, learned things based off of CSAM and is harmful for our critical thinking skills.
Honestly, the first one looks like the only valid reason. But is this about credits and stealing or getting mad because of inevitable technical progress that can make their work faster and cheaper? So there's a question: if a certain AI was trained on the arts, whose artists gave their full consent, would it be okay for you?
You said yourself that 'Many people were using it as...'. People can use anything to make harmful content. It's like hating knives because of murderers or existence of cameras for filming inappropriate things.
Water consumption and carbon footprint... Well, almost everything made by humanity has a negative impact on the environment. Should we cancel people for watching Youtube and Netflix then? Or even real musicians mentioned in your reply that use Spotify? Their data centers also create big environmental problems.
Cognitive abilities. Depends on people. For instance, before AI I read my lecture notes or textbooks, tried to understand a certain problem and ended up frustrated because everything wasn't explained clearly and I had to google it for hours just to find another tricky explanation. Now I can upload the whole textbook or paper written by very smart people, who study their subject for a lifetime and use their very smart scientific language, where they just say 'as you already know, ...'. I can ask AI to explain it to me in understandable words and it really works! As for essays and book reports, I've always thought they are extremely outdated, like the whole university concept. I don't know about other countries, but in mine students used to download texts from Google, then just read them at the seminars a few times and get a good mark. Now they do the same thing with AI and I think AI just made this problem more obvious.
Companionship. People don't like hearing about other people's problems. AI never gets tired of your problems and that simply reveals the dark side of human psychology.
About the boys, yes, I will point the finger at the parents. And maybe it's not only their fault, sometimes parents can't control things like their child's emotional state or social circles. Minors can find destructive content anywhere: forums, chats, friends, AI, darknet. That's the question about access control.
AI is just an instrument.
I think it's ridiculous to accuse all AI users of global problems.