Well, after a quick browse through, Some of the ai art isnt that bad. Maybe even an improvement. But some of it is. Not. Hard to tell since for whatever reason, the folder that contained all the cg images has vanished. So with a seemingly buggy unfinished gallery (still. lmao) & the quest log being borked (still) kinda hard to find all of the new scenes and compare em.
So Ai discussion aside, might as well list off some bugs since we're gonna need one million bugfixes. As usual. ("Final" Bugfix update my ass...) 1: after you go to the three town quests, labels above characters & intractable shit disappears. 2:Gallery is. Well it's missing A Lot. I think. Didn't get far enough in to find too many scenese (why is this game 30+ hrs again?) 3: cheats are missing. You can still one shot enemies, but everything else is gone. That might be a feature tho... 4: how does this version have more typos than 5.8b? makes no damn sense.... 5: quest log. It's Fucked. More than usual.
People who are artists and earn a living from it are still against it, but I can understand the view of those who don't make art to take advantage of absurd prices
Because they spend months to create the arts and now they are witnessing a technology that does it faster....
But even though it's AI, people don't actually look for decent art in these AI.
The Person has to know how to be very specific with tags, descriptions of how he wants such a thing and have an extra headache to discover the negative prompts that remove the disfigurations and bizarre things that are generated in an AI without proper descriptions.
So while an Artist spends his time creating Art and shows that he does it because yes and yes because he likes it, but he also needs money to pay bills, live and etc.
AI is a good start for those people who have never been able to learn to draw or don't have that much time, but being forced to exercise their own construction of details and eventually even being able to help artists who suffer due to time and stress with their observations of details.
Both in the end will end up helping each other to improve after all.
(there are always people who abuse, but I don't even need to comment on that, right?)