I had a talk with a publisher recently and have another one coming up because i want to gauge business sides of this shit including ai. Heres what ive come back with, accounting for just watching discourse myself, and exploring ai on my own (local)
>socially the consumer will rape you if you use ai and dont disclose it
>they will do the same if you disclose it but less intense
>typically only cares about art and audio (music, voice acting, you get the idea),
>copyright law has some spefic ruling on this so its clear in the sand from the standpoint of a business or monetary capacity
>code is the one that so far has no clear answer since you typically have a programmer on hand anyway so why bother
>legally speaking code can get a copyright, but can also only apply under certain license terms too
>code snippets online are public domain
>businesses have either "just make it work" or "dont let any ai touch our code" attitudes because it could be beamed to god knows where and use by who the fuck knows
>if you remove art and audio elements for ai usage in your game youre basically all in the clear legally right now
>ethics and personal opinion now dictates whether you can or cant do it for that company/product for programming

what do you anons think? id rather still trust a competent programmer than whatever the fuck ai slop vibecoded bullshit there could be as an alternative, but if youre without a programmer on hand then would ai be a reasonably ethical choice at this point? i hate it so much and i want to die especially because i focus on local non-nvidia solutions for this bullshit but at least im mostly in control