I'm saying it's third worlders making the slop not westerners. And it's not just in the gaming scene. Go on twitter it's full of third worlders trying to make 200bucks per month because for them it's more than they could make in a job. For someone living in the 1st world it's much more profitable to simply get a job.
I didn't mean it in the sense east Vs west. I'm saying the stuff that's in the so called western market is made by 3rd worlders. Making 100bucks would be one days work at minimum wage(approximately

) I couldn't make a playable game in 1 days work... meaning they probably spend more time than that even for the worst slop, I think
If you’re talking about the "west" as Western Europe and North America, then anime isn’t very popular there at all. The AI art proliferating in those regions would mostly be comics or game-based, which… gets DMCA'd a lot or simply banned from posting. You cannot post fanart of D×sney characters on deviantART, let alone AI-generated art of it. I mean you could, but it’ll get removed quick once the Big Mouse gets notice of it. There’s a reason crowdsourced games have no problems plagiarizing anime characters but not western ones. I mean, JP devs do takedowns all the time too, but they aren’t as omniprescent as the Big Mouse, for example. So unscrupulous devs can get away with copyright infringement
a lot more. Like seriously, that Marin NTR game would
never fly if it ripped from a western game. (Isn’t it also convenient that all his "future game suggestions" are from anime IPs and not western ones?)
Now, in other ”western” genres, such as realistic art or paintings, AI has absolutely ruined things. You can’t even have art competitions anymore because of the risk of awarding the prize to a cheating AI artist. Just look at what AI has done to photography. Absolute clown show.
3D art is also very popular in the west, but AI doesn’t need to make many inroads there because there are already many stock 3D models available for lazy devs to exploit. I’m sure we all know about the 3D Steam asset flips that existed
before AI took off. There is no reason to go prompting when there is already a pre-made D×zed asset that’s "good enough."
I mean, there
is AI 3D out there too, but it’s just horribly inefficient when you can just buy or steal a pre-made model and get unlimited posing options without needing to prompt or wait. Like if you are considering using 3D AI you probably don’t care about artist/IP rights in the first place, so it’s not much of a stretch to just steal assets from HS/Koikatsu, which many already do.
All about doing more for less.
Since NTR is a hentai-term, and that many of us here are weebs, the JP/west divide is colloquially known as Japan vs the rest.
It’s true that a lot of AI NTR slop doesn’t come from the "west" proper, but that’s because "westerners" aren't even into anime in the first place. The majority of anime fans are from the Asian regions, or are Asians living in the west. So most content also comes from there as well.
Now, if you want to be honest, AI NTR isn’t coming from third-world regions either. Unless Nigeria, Bangladesh have a burgeoning AI game scene I haven’t heard of? Most NTR being made (AI and otherwise) still comes from Asian regions or Asians living in western regions. I will also include Eastern Europe in this umbrella, since it’s very close in proximity and influence.