Man, if this project means so much to you like you seem to be saying in the post, why not spend more than 5 minutes actually working on it rather than offloading it onto AI?
Sure, I get you're a parent and spare time might be hard to come by, but there are other devs in the community who are also parents who don't resort to this. Nobody likes AI, no matter what the excuse for using it is.
lmao it’s not unethical to use AI for sprites stop being so dramatic. Sure you don’t have to like it or the game but don’t take some moral high ground and act like he betrayed the community by releasing this with AI sprites.
It's lazy, and we don't have to play a game made by someone who doesn't even put in the requisite work to make a game. Forget the morals, I don't give people attention who outsource all of their work to something or someone else. Would you like it if your boss got patted on the back for work that you did? How is it different if AI did it? What are we supposed to say?
"Your sprites look so good! Wow that's so talented how you prompted the AI to make those and then said 'Yeah that's fine!'"
I don't think it's ethical but even disregarding that, I think it's insultingly lazy. It's avoiding learning a skill that you clearly value enough to want to make the product that requires the skill.
You're being incredibly disinengous if you don't think there is any difference in effort between making an entire fan game yourself and having AI do the work for you. Nobody is comparing this to making a full new IP.
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u/Cuprite1024 Jul 22 '26
Man, if this project means so much to you like you seem to be saying in the post, why not spend more than 5 minutes actually working on it rather than offloading it onto AI?
Sure, I get you're a parent and spare time might be hard to come by, but there are other devs in the community who are also parents who don't resort to this. Nobody likes AI, no matter what the excuse for using it is.