Yep. I’ve seen indie game devs try to push AI art into their products and it never looks good. There is no cohesive design. It looks like badly done collage work with images in different resolutions sometimes. And if they’re that lazy, it usually shows in more ways.
in my experience, a lot of the game devs using AI would normally try to do the art themselves, but think AI is “better” than what they could do… Then they throw together a collage of mismatched art that has no cohesion and call it a day, and get upset when they get called out for it, thinking it’s just some anti AI thing.
People love to take shortcuts then hate when people tell them they sacrificed quality to do it.
I think it’s pretty obvious some folks get away with a little bit of AI art if they’re able to do most of the art themselves to create a cohesive art direction.
But if you have a cohesive art direction, it’s pretty much a guarantee you didn’t use AI for the art in general. It just isn’t able to perform that well yet, and it’s clear the non artists who use AI don’t have the eye for what makes it so bad.
Maybe a shortcut for a decorative item here and there, but it’s almost pointless if you already have the talent to make original assets.