Republishing My Previous Works

Earlier this year and at the closing end of the 2022, a movement happens - Artstation was filled with "No To AI Generated Images", covering their wall of arts which usually filled with superb and amazing images of art created by the artists.

The movement are also spread into Itch.io, where there are (in my perception) sentiments for the usage of AI Generated images, mainly on the Physical Games category. Unaware of this situation, up to December 2022, I made my own works still using AI Generated images - Walk of the Candy, Weird Mirror Arkney and Is It Monday Yet?.

Then at one point, I stumbled into some tweets stating and I'm paraphrasing that if you use any AI Generated images for your works, at least mention it on the page, so people will know what will they get when they download it.

It hit me to the core - this images, the generated images that I used on my works may or maybe not using someone works without their consent. I surely do takes time to finally updating my previously using AI images into "cleaner" ones by using and utilizing CC0 / Public Domains images for the content.

Yes, AI Generated images is far way easier and faster for making an appropriate context. It might take times for you searching a CC0 images of sinister, lean, boney hands of a man wearing black tuxedo. Or maybe you believe that you are not a great illustrator or maybe not able to produce such drawing that can represent an image of a sinister, lean, boney hands of a man wearing black tuxedo.

But once again, a short walk will not always be better than a longer ones.

Now, I use AI Generated images as point of reference. When I got writers block or trying to sparks some ideas for my works on Office23, I gather some ideas, put it on the machine, and wait for the results I prefer to come out. AI, in my opinion, is not a threat, it will helps you if you use it properly and accordingly.

Hence with that kind of revelation (and also having some quite free time), I updating my works - Weird Mirror Arkney and Is It Monday Yet?. On their second version, all the AI generated images are replaced by CC0 ones. I'm trying my best to make it helpful for the reader or players in creating such context. While for Walk of the Candy I can't do much - even though the game was a hexcrawl and having a quite simple gameplay mechanism, the AI Generated images I used in it are purely for theme, nuance and context builder. Hence in this situation, I put an all caps notification for the reader / players that this works is using AI Generated images for content.

At least, by doing this, I had my own peace of mind knowing that I did my best for the community. Even it's not a perfect one.

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You can find Weird Mirror Arkney and Is It Monday Yet? from widget below.