While most creatives across disciplines know to unite against unethical genAI, people like Luca here (if he's real) continue to support data theft because they're a selfish prick.

Ive seen quite a bit of these cross-discipline genAI users online AND irl. Hates ai images? Use it for writing. Hates ai music? Uses it for album covers. You mfs think the ai exist to benefit specifically you, completely unaware that youre just like others that they take advantage from. Stupid.

Ai bros dont seem to understand how learning works, or theyre usually brainwashed by ai companies to think ai "learns" like people. Human learning is an incredibly beautiful process that lead to our personalities and individualities, not soulless indistinguishable slop.

When i see another persons art, i try to break down their methods - the way they use a brush, the way they use colors, etc.
I dont go through their portfolio, take every pixel of every piece and store it in a database and use it to regurgitate information.
This should be obvious to a normal person.

Art Direction =/= Art Style.
Art direction is *the whole package* and then some. It's everything from the art style to the UI to the animations to the *font being used throughout the game* it's -everything-