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I think everyone is really bored about the constant debate about AI or not AI.

But just consider that you may not be a full AI user or a full-manual-traditional or digital-natural-painting user.

You may use all available tools that exist in the moment you live, and mix it all together, using one at a certain step of creation, others later. That's what most people will be doing in a few years (others will stay with what they use of course).

You can start by an AI image, then paint over it, recycle it again through AI, then return to paint on it. 
You can even use the part of the datasets that have to do with public domain classical styles.
You can also use AIs that are ethical in all its stages as Microsoft's Bing.
Or Mitsue-diffusion that only uses CC0 or Public Domain, donations, etc.
And you can train your own styles.
Or create them from your own images, colors, combinations of your works.

You can do all that. 
Then what are you? What will be the majority of creators in let's say 5 years? They will be AI users to you, or won't be artists? They may be using AI + all their other skills together. Then what sense will have to separate or tag them?

On the other side, for assets, I am all agreeing with that, as there is always a bunch of people sending bad stuff flooding everything. That should have its limits.
But on a final product, a game, I think there is no sense in that.

I think the focus should be in no-flooding, and not in no-AI.

I think everyone here is asking the same thing, and I do too:

- Do you mean that using AI in any part of my creative process (coding, art, ....) means that I have to tag it as "AI generated" ?

Because that is what the first message says: "if your project contains the results of generative AI. " (....) "your page will automatically receive the AI Generated tag."

So if I use AI in some point, no matter the amount or if it's purely generated or mixed with other skills, it becomes all "AI Generated" to the eyes of everyone, as if we had put zero effort in doing it, and it was only the result of  random clicking a button or writing a prompt.

I mean, that I use AI doesn't mean that my work is "AI generated". It means that there are parts that are generative, but I may put more work on it, and use it as a base or as a combination of other existing skills.

I understand that you want to ban AI on assets, because it will overflood everything if you don't do, just because some people posting lots of crap.

But force games to be considered all AI generated for using it in some parts... that's crazy. 

Between using the output of an AI generator without alterations, and doing all handmade, there is a wide spectrum. 

Thank you so much for your help! 

Thank you for your reply and links :)
I saw this: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9859372?hl=en&utm...

It says Play Store hosts 1.5 Gb of resources? Or am I understanding it wrong?

Hi,

I'm developing a roguelike game, that will have lots of 2D graphics. They are pngs that are not too heavy, but as there's 111 monsters and 40 levels, each one with a quantity of graphics (probably about 25), it may become heavy about 1 gb or so.

I've been already several months making the monsters and it may take me more to make the scenes, and the protagonist pics. But I also have to think on how to put it all in the game.

I am looking at info of marketplaces like Play Store, reading that the main apk can reach 200 mb, and it's already 187 for me. But they allow to have big asset packs.

On other places without those limitations, like here in Itch.io, it may be good anyway to have the main apk small, and load resources from other files.

So my questions:

• Are Unity's asset bundles for packaging graphics and load/unload them ? So I could load the assets for the current level on runtime, then release them and load the next level ones?
• If not, how do you handle situations like this for publishing your game on Play Store, or similar places?
• And are these assets hosted on Play Store or do I have to own a server to host them?

Thank you! :)