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I kind of get it in the sense that these are small-scale things and a lot of the VN-making community is against AI-generated stuff in general because of the impact on artists and such, but at the same time, I also know a handful of people who would love to get into making VNs but can’t because they can’t draw + also can’t afford to purchase assets. Sure, there’s free stuff available for people to use, but it often comes with hefty terms of use, and seeing the same sprites in 10+ games isn’t exactly great for players >.<

So I can see both sides I guess. For competitions, even indie ones, I don’t think it should be allowed because I feel like judges would be inundated with AI-generated entries which would make it difficult to actually play everything submitted. But even in non-competitive jams, I suppose the hosts want to prevent their jams from being flooded with low-quality entries that may have been made entirely with AI. Cos I know a lot of jam hosts already have to kick out tonnes of irrelevant or rule-breaking entries from their jams as it is, haha.  AI has probably just made that side of things even worse >.<

“I despise any and all use of AI by multi-billion multi-national corporations that seek to replace workers with AI for profit.”

Totally agree on that! And yet it seems to be escalating :( 

"However, I personally have no issues with indies and freeware projects using AI so long as they are upfront about it and disclose it properly."

And I agree with that too! Though I can understand why jam hosts would ask folks not to since they can make their own rules. I’d be curious to know if it’s a trend across all kinds of game jams or just in the VN-making arena! I was hoping to join 1 jam that starts fairly soon, and they also have the same rule, no AI-generated stuff, which is fine by me cos I wasn’t planning to use anything like that anyway, but it does seem to have become the norm in VN-related jams as far as I can see.