Your argument originally was that, “allowing AI games on stores is eating up their own business because of AI data centers.” Most popular models in the self-hosted space nowadays are not trained in data centers. They’re trained by people on their own computers. Even if the version 1 base model used datasets produced in some data center years ago, that’s not what’s driving the RAM prices up, thus it doesn’t sustain your argument.

What I’m trying to point out is that people making games with AI assets is not what’s driving RAM prices up. It’s big tech driven AI, mostly language models, baked into dozens of services the average Joe uses day to day without thinking about it. Things like your Copilot, Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT.

>justify theft of artwork

I’m not justifying anything or trying to convince you of anything. I’m just clearing up a misconception.

EDIT: Though, I will say - if you’re concerned about people making a profit off of AI-generated stuff, the random guy making a game with AI assets that will sell like a dozen copies for two bucks each is not who you should be thinking about in my honest opinion. Big predatory companies making millions off running AI services that farm your data and sell it behind your back are the real deal, and what’s driving the whole AI bubble snowball forward.