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Good game but a bit too similar to clover pit

Your life is so sad.

But the Product is still in production. If it was a finished product then sure, but the product still is being worked on and is being made to improve their ability to make games. Despite this it is pointless as the developer confirmed that the ai will be swapped out once the product is uploaded onto steam. 

but you said "Artists are just getting mad, because AI will eventually make a large part of the normal workflow for them redundant" so then why wasnt ai allowed in the game jam when in the future ai will be most of the workflow;

Hi Stag The problem with AI generated content is that it is low effort content and does not showcase your ability nor improve your ability through process learning, that is because AI generated content is not your work, even if it is a model trained on your work. So, it actually misses the point of what the jam is all about, which is improving and showcasing. It is the same reason that AI generated content (prompt based) does not garner copyright attribution regardless of the source material used in its data sets. At best you might claim it created a derivative work based on the prompt itself, but the argument is very poor.  Non-prompt based AI is mostly QOL stuff, for example smoothing algo, or animation automation (you specify certain frames and in fills in the gaps), and have been long in use for yearas prior to this every becoming a thing.

You don't need artist consent to train an AI off of their work as the AI does not do anything to breach copyright. However, if the AI produces something far too similar to their work that in and of itself could constitute a breach, but this doesn't preclude all AI generated assets from said data training.  So, there is nothing invalid from a creator using prompt based AI. However, prompt based AI is something I believe does not follow the spirit of the jam. Hence my wish/suggestion that all prompt based AI was banned.

2 year ago you were against ai, what changed?

I understand it make take some time, but some of the most popular indie games end up having very simplistic art which took very little time to make, as long as the general idea gets a crossed and the game doesn't focus on art or animation it doesn't need to even be good. Also if someone is using ai art for their game I would also assume it would be just practice code. Now all of this is pointless to argue about as the dev will change this before the game releases so theres that. 

Just use free assets which are not only free, not only better in quality but also better as you don't worry about having to "own" the art. It just feels distracting when the art feels like its been stolen.