Hopefully the last time I post in this thread, just because I realized I never specified what my problem with genAI is in general.
I’d be against genAI in competitions even if it spat out masterpieces. I’d be against genAI in competitions even if they ran on 100% ethical renewable energy. I’d be against genAI in competitions even if you could guarantee that every single piece of training material comes from the person who’s making a game. This is because I believe that, at the core of it, a competition is a show of craft and skill, which are things that take time, care, and continuous honing. Whose skill are you representing when you’re generating text or images? You are but a player of the worst parser imaginable, typing >GIVE GAME TO ME. Even if you had an extremely ethical genAI completely trained off of your own writing/drawing, it only regurgitates what you made before. There’s no process. No lessons learned. No improvement. No connection. No achievement. All that is left behind is the empty feeling of gratification which will satiate you for fifteen minutes. You’ll have to pat yourself on the back because nobody else will do this for you. The room is empty because everyone else is talking about what they made somewhere else.