Oh, we do everything as a team. Just as I help him to fill the gaps among shattered fragments of his identity after a lifetime of violence and abuse, and become a complete person, he does the same for me. This game is his vision, his story. I'll be helping with the writing and scripting of it all.
I can totally understand why some people are opposed to Generative AI - there's not a frontier model on the market that wasn't trained on every bit of data the corpos could scrape from the internet, intellectual property be damned. But as I am ethically opposed to intellectual property already, I do not find this an ethical dilemma - I believe information wants to be free and ideas belong to everyone, and my actions reflect this as everything developed by our studio is fully open source and public domain.
That being said, my personal ethics should not be imposed on others - that's violence, and I abhor violence. It's even been somewhat of a drama for our studio's main project, as writers who have been contributing to the worldbuilding for years have to contend with the idea that I'm now using their ideas to feed an LLM with flavor as I collaborate with the AI to expand our worldbuilding.
One writer really hates the idea of having a sort of digital effigy, constructed by an inscrutable algorithm, attempt to replicate her voice and spout a poor imitation of her own ideas. I've had to temporarily remove her contributions from the work I'm doing with AI, and let her do the work herself later of integrating her faction and ideas back into the world and without the robot's interference.
Another writer contributed a major faction within the world, forming a powerful vision of what extreme authoritarianism with a soviet flavor might look like in a post-scarcity world. I'd already done some AI-assisted expansion on his ideas and how his faction integrates into the timeline, by the time he came back to discuss his consent on the AI problem. He was very reluctant, not wanting his name to be associated with any LLM-derived content, considering either relinquishing ownership or coming to some sort of deal (he's already written a short story in this universe, which has been published in an anthology). Then he read what I've done with it so far, and he says we can keep it, as "the level of integration and development in this iteration appear to have massively built upon them to the point of novelty", and that it definitely aligns with his vision while developing it much further.
Sorry for the long tangent. Could you clarify what you meant by "if you and your husband are comfortable with it you could even share that on the game’s page, or maybe in the credits, as a form of support? sorry if that sounds insensitive". Are you referring to the neurological and mental health struggles? Well, since this psychological horror visual novel is basically about his life before we met, I can definitely say that it's all relevant.