Don't want to go off topic on this but there's no proof it's westerners doing this. You think it's worth it for westerners to make slop to earn 100-500 bucks or whatever?
Both sides are making slop lol. DLsite is absolutely infested with AI nonsense, for example.
JP developers are generally more honest about disclosing AI usage (though DLsite making it mandatory also helps).
Steam and itch.io also require disclosure… but that seems to be ignored in many cases.
AI text usage should also be disclosed in addition to art, but this is
rarely done.
Since F95 is a western site, obviously western slop will be more prominent. But Japanese do not have magically higher standards for games just because they act polite in public, lol. How many guys are playing freem (JP doujin site) games here? People do not comment on JP AI usage because they don’t visit JP sites.
But if you hire JP talent, which I do, you’ll notice that many VAs have AI avatars, and many composers use AI covers for their albums. I actually think westerners are
more outspoken when it comes to being against AI, but that’s another story.
Now, considering the very minimal time and effort inputs into AI, it’s absolutely worth dipping into for that extra $100-500 (it’s actually
a lot more, btw). There are AI devs who literally make a dozen games a year being uploaded
here. Surely you’ve seen Naughty Arcade Studio’s stuff being uploaded in the NTR section?
Since it’s profitable to make money from literally peanuts, the latest releases on many storefronts have become
terrible to browse through. It continues to get worse as AI proliferates at the expense of creators who put in the hard work to make their own stuff. It’s the W×× games slop problem redux, except a lot worse because the barrier of entry is
even lower than that.
In some ways, it’s good that F95 doesn’t have many uploaders, because you’d be seeing
even more AI slop. As sad as it is, the AI games being released here are already some of the ”best.”