Personally, I beg to differ. Giving text-based games AI-generated art isn't an improvement. With or without art, it shouldn't be painful if you're using your imagination. I'd assume you have seen more than enough art to visualise what is being written. Regardless, saying AI art is better than no art is entirely untrue because art comes with its own meanings and interpretations and since AI art wasn't specifically made for the game, there will be a disconnect between the art and what's written.
So no, AI isn't better than no art, I would rather just read and imagine it for myself than let a janky AI image determine that for me
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That is good, but to outright ban ai instead of like i said have games use the tag of [ai Assisted] gamename or [Ai image generated] gamename
instead of the outright ban would be better, you could still avoid games with AI art or text or other stuff in it that way, without the need to ban it completely, it isn't that big of a deal last year the contest had only one thing with ai in it. In like 20 + games. So it would be easy for people to avoid it.
I think that is a better way to do it then outright banning it outright.
Reading this comment I realize that I trying to come up with ideas in my head is literally painful. Still gonna do it manually, my brain needs excercise, not gonna use AI, but this is something I should probably talk to my doctor about., probably lack of sleep, I made the mistake of getting an energy drink mix instead of a drink mix