Newsflash: AI-phobia now officially accepted by the UN as an illness
AI generated, so-called "art" is trampling the proprietary rights of artists all over the world. I remember a colleague (during my days as a web developer) saying, "We can take anything we like from the Web. As long as we modify it, it's ours." Well, no it wasn't and...isn't.
That's what AI companies are doing. Same principle. AI produces a mash-up of artists' creations and spits it out as something "new" with no compensation to the actual artist(s) of the elements of said mash-ups whatsoever. Regulations haven't kept up with the technology, which is why a financial bubble has formed around tech companies which, when it bursts, is going to make the subprime mortgage crisis look like a blip on the radar.
There is no law against using AI-generated material in video games or anywhere else, so the makers of video games and movies and advertisments and trailers aren't doing anything legally wrong by using it any more than they're doing anything wrong by purchasing game engine store assets, which would be preferable to using AI, imo, as those assets are created by artists who are being compensated for their work...though I'm sure there's a lot of shenanigans going on there, too.
TFP's artists are producing the models and textures
based on AI-generated slop. So, it's certainly not a diss on
their work to bring the models and textures based on AI-generated slop to life, so to speak, in the game. They're doing a good job of that, I think.
