Sorry guys, I don’t have time to read all 166 posts, but I read first Grimimic post and before I get banned for using AI in my projects:
I will express my point of view too.
The advent of AI was one of the main reasons I started developing games in the first place, and I will never give up on this critical tool. In case of my “Praedeon” game which made on RPG Maker all enemy sprites was generated by AI. I will not spend a week drawing a picture of a bear (yes, it will take me a week) that I generated in an hour and edited in Photoshop in another hour. AI helped me to save about two months of my time on enemy sprites which I wasted on drawing additional character sprites.
The same goes for “Vermonut” project where I use AI to convert my own male voice into female, because I am not a female and I don’t have any female friend who will help with that (and no, the voice won’t sound like robotic crap). The same goes for static objects like some crates, apples, boxes 3d models. I can’t see a reason to waste 20 hours on making “apple” 3d model when I can use AI to generate this apple in 30 minutes and waste another 30 minutes on retopology to get acceptable result. And I’m not even talking about how often I use AI to learn something about Unreal Engine or to debug some things (because it is way faster then using google and search for hours without luck in finding correct answer).
In general, I’m trying to say that I welcome any means that help reduce the time it takes to develop a game, including the use of AI. The only question is how good the result looks.
The issue of quality of projects where developers decided to shift almost everything to AI clearly worries me. For example, I don’t play in visual novels where author generated all visuals using AI simply because to me personally it looks bad. The same goes for Daz3d rendered pictures, but judging by the number of likes and comments on some weightgaming threads, such games also have their fair share of fans. So, I guess, it’s all a matter of taste.
P.S. I don’t have my own opinion about rules for permission to participate in weightgain jam, because I don’t plan to ever participate since testing my skills as a developer is not a reason of why I started developing games.