Gamers also don’t generally reflect the opinions of the entire population.

Oh, so it is the gamers who are anti-AI, and the artists who are in favor of it. That makes sense.

where the developer had absolutely no chance of hiring actual people (therefore no artist, software engineer, etc. was hurt in the process)

It’s interesting to me how a project fronted by somebody without two nickels to contract an artist can use the power of AI to create assets they’d never otherwise be able to, but they’re not replacing anyone; AI can’t just make a bunch of assets that a person could. That’s some black magic, right there.