It’s
not always due to lack of resources. Greed is also a thing. Activision has oodles of money and they have no problems using AI to skimp on artists.
Free is free in the end. I’ve seen people literally wait
weeks for games that are 200 yen.
Does someone earning $10k/month
really need to use AI? Not really… but $2k saved on paying an artist is
$2k in your pocket. If there are pennies to be pinched, there are pennies to be pinched.
Also, do keep in mind this is F95zone. Almost everyone here is looking to obtain games without paying creators. It’s true this is a great place for H-game discussion… but most are here to pirate.
Since people here are already
not paying human creators, there’s even less incentive to pay for AI works that cost nothing to generate.
It’s not like me, who still does everything by hand, has been getting paid more since AI became a thing.

I refuse to use AI out of principle, but I’ve accepted that many NTR devs are already using AI and earning way more.