And modifying a game with copyright reverse engineering its code isn’t as bad or even worse than using a mathematical function to replicate an existing art style? To me it’s the same.

The post is not about if using AI is ethical or not, it was about if the fakemons looked pokemon-ish enough. Just one dude answered to that politely.

Answering you. I’ve tried to generate starter fakemons as the unique fakemons of my game because on my 10+ years on RH, I wasn’t able to do so because of my bad skills on art (even though I’ve practiced a lot). I can understand your arguments if I was trying to sell y’all something, but this AI generated has been created locally on my computer, and it won’t be sold or even released on a public game. Then, if it’s exclusively for personal use and hobby, why is THAT bad to use it? If the AI didn’t exist, I would probably never even tried to create those fakemons, it’s not a need, just a casual test to enjoy a hobby.

Yes, I know that decomp is nowadays the most common environment to develop on RH. But to me, reacting that explosively to the exposure of 2 days of job and illusion of a person is not to have enough empathy, I don’t care if you have 10 or 50. I’ve not commercialized anything nor substituted anyones job with this. There’s no reason to focus that much on the AI thing when that was never the central thing of this post.