it started using ai to help in the art
Can you be more specific about that? I mean, it can be misleading to just state that since as far as I know he uses it but not to create images. This is what he said in discord about AI:
"... to test if the new popular thing in town (AI) could help me develop the game faster. The test was a failure, its uses are very limited, unreliable and soulless, I have nothing against it, and I still use it as a tool for some things, but it can't replace me unfortunately."
That was posted at 25/04/2024 on the discord announcements channel when talking about a side project and as far as I know is the last time that he touched the topic. If he said something else somewhere else I would appreciate if you could say where and what he said.