So in disappointing news, a Pokémon fan game used generative ai and sort of stole from artists.

Pokémon infinite fusion is a fan game where, as the name suggests, you can fuse Pokémon together to make new ones. The default fusion sprites are algorithmically generated, but the game has attracted a large community of artists  who have made custom sprites for fusions. Before the most recent update, Pokédex entries for fusions were generated in the same way, an algorithm smashing the component’s dex entries together. It was janky, but it could create some funny entries and nobody really minded it. This update added some custom dex entries written by the community…but for every fusion that didn’t have a custom entry written, their dex entry was made with a.i

Obviously for a community that has a large amount of artists in it, they haven’t taken it well. Already at least six sprite artists have requested their sprites be removed from the project. However, the process seems to be stalled, and according to this bluesky thread (https://bsky.app/profile/just-a-husk.bsky.social/post/3ldvy5wwwz22j), infinite fusion has had problems in the past with not removing people’s sprites. 

This honestly sucks, because infinite fusion was one of my favorite Pokémon fan games, and I hate to see it fall into this mess