Just gonna make something clear here.
As an artist, I guess this whole situation is making me a lot more emotive on the matter, but I've reached a point where I don't give a fuck if I come off as dramatic for it.
If you use AI in any capacity, get off my page, unfollow me, and block me.
Some of you using AI to code, fill in gaps for cc, or literally just writing ideas for gameplay/cc is a new level of laziness that needs to be studied at this rate.
If you're using AI to code, you've officially just admitted to everyone you couldn't give less of a shit about putting poorly/unchecked coded files into other people's games. DO tell me how you're going to fix them in upcoming updates. Is the AI code gonna be able to work around the absolute spaghetti-shite code that is Sims 4?
If you're using ai to generate swatches for your cc or to fill in gaps you don't want to do, congrats. You're just proving to people that you've lost the love of the game with this stuff and just wanna pump shit out for the sake of pumping shit out. Is burnout a thing? Yep! Absolutely. I've had it multiple times. Taking a break and changing your scenery is the solution, not half-assing your work and serving it on a questionable plate. If you plan a piece of cc with the intention to skip so many of those steps, are you sure you even wanna make it in the first place?
If you're using ai to give you ideas for gameplay or cc. I legit have nothing tame to say to you. Pinterest is free and scrolling on here to find gameplay ideas is...... -checks notes-, also free. Play another game if this one is currently making you creatively bankrupt.
The fact that I have to double-check almost everything I download now is a little sad. I'm seeing an influx of creators who used to make their stuff A to Z from scratch, now filling in gaps of their work with AI, which tells me that they're completely fine with just giving that kind of quality for players who have loved and (in some cases) supported their work for YEARS. It's distasteful.
What happened to making/creating stuff here for the genuine sake of just, having fun? Never in a million years would I ask chatgpt to give me a mesh to texture, because the idea of learning to make it, falling face flat a couple of times from failing, and eventually getting it right is unironically the most human and artistically pleasant part of it.
Don't come into my comments going "if its not your thing just ignore it". You're right, and I will. But I will also choose to publicly shame the people using a 'tool' that is currently taking away jobs, polluting our air, destroying people's neighborhoods, ridding areas of their clean water, causing people psychoses back and forth, AND statistically making us dumber.
Wake up and educate yourselves, or rot into the delusion. I'm done being tame about this topic.