Ai is the future and im here for it great artists will always have work shit artists will have to improve before they start charging for their meager talents. Porn games especially are really held back by art its just too expensive and time consuming for these tiny indie niche projects to have any ambition of scale of narrative with art constraints so strong. The Ai in this particular game is really quite good and gives the game a consistency it did not have previously however the flaws of Ai are still there the souless eyes the small but visible mistakes in anatomy.I think this is where artists can really help a project in the future if even just one artist on staff not a contractor just goes through and edits everything art output could double or tripple without any quality loss. And btw just like with writing code Ai generation is a skill and people are getting better and better at that skill.
This is extremely bad take!
Artists learn and improve from what they draw. Look at how Incase or Sabu, or any other great porn artist began - they early works don't hold a candle to what they draw now. If we replace newbie artists with AI under pretext of them drawing shit, there won't be great artists. Because every artist has to learn by practise, which is much harder (perhaprs even impossible) to perform without monetary backing from comissions. And if AI will replace those low-tier comissions, there would be less artists practicing and in the end - less great artists. The result would be exact opposite to your hopes.
AI-pictures in this particular game in most cases are bad. They have lot of glaring anatomical mistakes, overuse of glint or blur, miscoloration and odd expression that do not fit the scene they portray or even how any sentient creature should express their emotion. Characters often look unfocused, cross-eyed, with unreadable expressions like they are in drug-altered state of mind. You could easily check it yourself if you search for my posts here because I regularly post my findings. Its not a question of taste - most of AI-imagery has low quality.
And calling figuring AI input a skill like it is compatible in any way with actual art is laughable. Yes, it is technically a skill, akin to a skill of being polite to a pizzeria you are ordering pizza from versus being good at baking pizza yourself. To call something so comparatively triffling a skill is offense against actual skills that take many times the time and effort than figuring out the inputs. Any regular activity could be called a skill by the wide definition of this term, but people usually abstain from using this word this way because it is insignificant compared to something that takes more time and effort to master.
No, I am sorry, your take is indefensible to me.
My own opinion, in case you wonder, isn't at all anti-AI (which you can also prove by searching for my earlier messages here). AI is a tool - groundbreakingly great and greatly groundbreaking. One that takes time to figure out, one that has limitless potential and one that does a huge work on expanding our creative horizons.
That is, if used rightly.
Using it to propell forward cool project that struggles to find or finance artists - is a great way to use AI. This is, however, isn't such an example.
Devs here are people with time, money and experience to work with actual artists - that we should support if only because of inter-human solidarity, in my opinion. What they did is unsystematically replaced already existing art of variable quality with AI art that in most cases is provably worse - many arguments was made in this thread against it, when people pointed out objective and glaring downsides. What we see here isn't a call from the future, its a greedy and lazy corner-cutting.
Again, I am not against using the AI. One thing is when dev need a ton of new art fast or cheap and therefore uses AI to achieve this result. Another is when established dev team of one of the biggest porngame projects with financial backing from many fans uses AI to just threw away tons of already existing pictures seemingly at random. Not adding something new to the game -wasting time and effort to throw away what already was, regardless of its quality.
I have no idea how you can be apologetic of this.