I will not use AI
I wanted to address this because I want to be transparent with my audience. I have not and I will never use AI for my creative projects - not my game development, and not my music production.
As an artist, I specialise in programming and music composition. I would not consider myself a visual artist, and as mentioned in my album cover post, I only create simplistic art. If I want something I couldn't do, or something in a particular style, I would ask my friends and community for help. I wouldn't ask a computer to do it for me.
If a computer has created it for me, can I justify having done that by just typing a prompt and clicking? Not really. How would I explain my art? I wouldn't be able to. It would feel wrong.
Why I'm against it
I dislike it when people, who are crazy about it, mention how its the future and we'll have to adapt to it. I generally know how it works, and that it needs data in order to train it. However, where that data is sourced from is a huge, red flag.
Ownership and rights are extremely important. If I was to create something and get no credit for it, I'd be pretty annoyed by that because I put effort into something and I don't get anything for it. Crediting someone is absolutely free and should be respected. If you engage with something, you're inspired by it and you will probably take some ideas from it.
I'd say it's okay to use for assistance - but even then, you can search around the internet for what you need to find anyway. I can't justify using a tool for this when I can do it for myself. I'm not lazy, I will search things if I want to figure out something.
My biggest rule for myself is that if I don't understand something, I will not touch it. If I want to understand something, I will explore the information for myself and make my decisions based on what I do: not from a computer's decision.