great concept and I enjoyed the tech demo, but I got halfway through playing it before I realized all the art was AI. I wouldn't actually mind if it weren't true that BOTH:
> this page nor any page about the game, nor their patreon discloses that the art is made using assistance from generative AI (EDIT: okay if you dig into the tags on this page it has the ai tag. I don't believe this is sufficient and I would bet I'm not alone in feeling that way.)
> they are actively soliciting money (through patreon) for development on these titles that are using AI trained on unpaid/uncredited artists' work.
I had to dig through the discord to find the creator discussing their methods. Apparently they do sketch character poses, but I couldn't find any detailed documentation on their process. It would be inaccurate to say they "basically draw it themselves and let AI fill in the blanks" and you can tell as much from the art in game. What's kind of disappointing to me is there's really only like half a dozen or so still poses of three characters thus far? A perfectly achievable scope in a reasonable time if they chose to use their own finished art. I think the planned game is also a reasonable scope to have genuine human art done, either by the creator themselves or a partner/contracted artist.
I'm not going to be as vitriolic as other commenters but the fact that AI use is not disclosed at all in any marketing surrounding this game is unambiguously unethical.
Please reconsider your dev workflow or at the very least your level of forthrightness with your audience.