That's kind of the big issue when starting out, finding like-minded people that are willing to work with you. Your best hope is to try again to find somebody that's at your level and wants to help with the game. If you have any local gamedev community, even if it's just your country, I'd highly recommend looking there as opposed to random people online because (in my experience) people tend to be more serious in smaller communities, especially if you can meet up IRL.

I don't think anybody really cares if you use AI for your free hobby projects. The problem is that AI is really bad at gamedev, so you'll suffer a fair bit with broken code and not knowing how to tie everything together in the game engine.

I want to be a game artist and learning to code seems like it would be a distraction from that. Is it wrong to think that way?

Not at all. Not everybody wants to be a solo indie dev that's trying to be good at everything, most people I know are either just a programmer or just an artist. Get good at what you do and try your best to find a teammate you can trust who's also serious about it.

Disregard ethics for a second. I would argue it is much more unethical to use AI generated art in a game than it would be to use AI generated code. Here's why:

AI art steals the role of artists because it uses algorithms to produce a product that has never existed before, like an artist does with colors instead of math.

AI code isn't great. That's why so many experienced coders are being hired to come fix the nightmare code that companies used AI to generate after firing all their coders. But that's because AI only knows how to put together code that has already existed, which means all an AI is really doing is interpreting your input and producing an output - just like you would do if you thought of what you wanted your code to do, spent countless hours pouring through search results, forums, textbooks, etc., slapping some shit together, and running it through a validator. Most applications have validators built into the workspace, meaning if you write something that doesn't work or make sense, it's going to tell you (and probably even tell you how to fix it). So, just think of AI as a slightly smarter validator. You write some really bad code (what you want the code to do in English) and the validator goes "this English code makes no sense, here's what it should look like."

There's no guarantee the "corrections" it makes will actually work, fit into the code you already have, be organized in the most efficient way, or be the best way to handle that particular task. But, a huge chunk of a coder's time is thinking about things like that anyway. So let the AI fix your English code into whatever language you're actually trying to speak, and you deal with the other half: is this how I want it to work?

But that's just me. 🤷🏻

Edit: If after all that you're still not feeling very ethical, then show a coder your product and see if they'll use their brain's LLM to validate better code.

It sounds to me like you're looking for someone to give you permission to use AI code generation. If that's the case, then here you go:

I, Entwine, a professional software engineer, decree that DesertCryptid shall have permission to utilize any Artificial Intelligence product to generate code for his game starting today, and until we reach AGI (at which point my decree will hold no weight).

Anyone who disagrees with my decree shall have to face me in a code review (to the death)

Ach Schade, ich habe nämlich genau das Problem, dass ich Windows nur für Lightroom und Photoshop brauche.

Darktable und Gimp sind keine echten Alternativen, da wichtige Funktionen fehlen. Außerdem würd eich alle Anpassungen an den Bildern, die ich über die Jahre in Lightroom gemacht habe, verlieren.

Wäre aber auch zu schön um wahr zu sein 😉

Geht man da jetzt einfach zur nächsten Kaserne, oder gibt es spezielle Ausgabestellen für?

Wie verhindert das Ministerium, dass sich da jemand mehrfach meldet?

Gibt es dafür jetzt Volksschulkurse?

Selten so einen schlecht recherchierten Artikel gesehen, @derpostillon!!1!

die Weihnachsbaumkanone lässt sich doch bestimmt auch umfunktionieren

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Die Weihnachtsbaumkanone | hessenschau

Mit einem großen Knall fliegen in Münzenberg die Weihnachtsbäume des letzten Jahres durch die Gegend. Erfunden hat die Weihnachtsbaumkanone Harald Seipp. Der...

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#Merz: "Positiver Geist könne Kraft freisetzen, Pessimismus und Weinerlichkeit seien vergeudete Energie."
Das steht auch immer in Horoskopen und auf der Rückseite von Abreißkalendern.

Zum geplanten Sozialabbau: "Konkreter wurde [Merz] nicht."
Ah ja.

Wessen Lebensweise genau?

#IchBinArmutsbetroffen #Pflegegrad1Bleibt #TaxTheRich