Like what are we even doing here? Why are IF Comp and $109 Adventure Game Challenge allowing AI slop in their competitions? Doesn’t that defeat the whole point? I don’t think any game jam or competition should allow AI art. I have a billion other reasons why I’m against using that stuff to make games but it especially seems to go against the spirit of making something for a jam where things can be messier and more personal. If I’m following along with a jam and see a game that clearly uses it, I’m going to give it the lowest possible rating because it’s boring shit. Bruno has a much more elegant take on this and the use of AI in IF Comp but I mostly wanted to vent because….fucking why use it? The sooner this bubble bursts, the better. Every jam allowing it should be embarrassed.
I think it would be much more poignant if instead of disqualifying them for using AI, we disqualify them for art theft and stolen assets because AI and art theft are one in the same.
I don’t think this is going away; if the bubble bursts we won’t have less, only we will stop having more. May be at some point the general mood about GEN AI will change and the communities will reject this type of content. Probably not the covers or adjacent content, at least for free games, but definitely in the game itself.
I don’t think it will ever go away completely but I do hope the usage will drop after the bubble bursts. I definitely think it’s worth pushing back just to keep it out of the spaces I like.
I agree 100% with the sentiment but it’s clearly quite difficult to implement. For example, there’s an entry in the “DOS Games July 2024 Jam” which is almost entirely AI generated art.
Unless an author openly admits to using generative AI, how can you prevent it being submitted to a jam? There’s a growing number of people that generate images, perform some level of editing, such as moving a character’s nose around slightly, rescaling the image, applying a filter, drawing over small portions of the picture – and consider this transformative enough that it’s no longer an ‘AI generated image’. Then there’s those people that choose to outright lie.
As a jam organiser, who can never be 100% certain about how an image was made, where do you draw the line and how do you enforce it?