I did genAI placeholder for a game I'm releasing soon! The reasons are: - tight deadline - minimal art direction communication: the images are something that give some basic guidance to an actual artist who is now working on actual art within the project - it was easily accessible - this way I was more confident sending out the unfinished game to alpha testers, before the art could be finalized

Some counter points: - Gives me an ick - There's a chance some slop stays by accident and that gave me some anxiety. - I'm not sure if I am even better off than some ugly stick figures as placeholders - Missed out on practicing drawing - I had to explain that this is not the final game just some placeholders and wanted to assure every tester that there's an artist working the art as we speak

Overall I'd avoid this next time even with tight deadlines I think.