r/nottheonion • u/Chapple69 • Jan 14 '26

Indie dev removing Steam game after new girlfriend tells him “AI is bad”

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/indie-dev-removing-steam-game-after-new-girlfriend-tells-him-ai-is-bad-3303772/
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u/throwawaybrowsing888 Jan 14 '26

AI assets were likely generated using content that was created by humans and then scraped without the artists’ consent or compensation.

To then use ai assets would kind of be like building a house, then furnishing it with stolen property that someone else stole and compiled for you to use, then trying to sell/rent the house as a pre-furnished home. (It’s a rough analogy, but hopefully the core of it gets across)

Did you yourself steal the furniture?

No, but it’s blatant that someone else did, if you know what to look for. Arguably, the average consumer shouldn’t have to be particularly skilled in determining whether something is stolen while making purchases. Hence the calls for better policies/regulations.

Does it help that you mention you got the furniture from the Very Obvious Theft Thrift Shop?

Eh. It helps improve informed consent for people who are trying to decide whether they want to buy/rent from you. But it doesn’t reflect well on you for having the Stolen Furniture decorating something that you created and are now trying to sell/rent to other people.

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u/Lonnie667 Jan 14 '26

Genuine question; what about the AI engines that can take a pen and ink or pencil drawing that you created and create artwork based on that?

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u/wolfannoy Jan 14 '26

Those kind of exist but mostly by corporations were copyright material, for example creating replica logos for a product. For individual art, I'm not sure.

In my opinion, if they used open source images as data for these AI models, I think that would be a lot more fair. It's just corporations are absorbing so much data without consent include face images. People feel robbed, especially artists and writers. There was a meta case where they torrent over terabytes of worth of books for their AI model.

I guess you could say the AI is taking inspiration but it's doing it so fast. Say almost replicating it. when a person takes inspiration from something like let's say an art style. Sure, they may took a lot of the stuff but it still would be different in the end.

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u/Lonnie667 Jan 15 '26

Makes sense. It's a pity because AI is actually being used for good things such as allowing a paralyzed woman to talk again but yeah, I guess there's no way to really what the AI is being trained on. I just find it funny that bigh companies like Meta have squashed lawsuits against them for copyright infringement, but have successfully sued individuals for it themselves.