You are trying to be sarcastic but it genuinely looks nice and fits with what the mod is about.
Even simple icons can tell a lot than an overly complex AI generated crap.

How is this different than when the introductory photo is a screenshot of the game ?

Why so much aggressivity and why assume the person doesn't know how to do things differently too ?


A simple screenshot is useful - it shows what the mod can do . A piece of hand-drawn art is beautiful - it ...

I think that the usage of “Generated Art” for an introductory photo is a good Signal: it clearly indicates that the rest of the Project is low-effort slop, and can safely be ignored. Please go take an Art class in-person from a real Human, or at least try drawing with a Pencil - you will be ...

You are not seeing the problem. A.I uses a lot of stolen scraped data and art from the internet without consent. And people who don't have art "skills" can still make art. Even a crude drawing is more effort and nicer to see than A.I that guesstimates shit.

Also first point is just vibe coding ...

I personally don't mind it. I'm not an artist myself. I am a programmer. There are three camps of programmers: 1) Those who embrace AI as a helpful tool for cranking out large amounts of code FAR faster than we could code it ourselves. 2) Those who view it as 'spicy math' and don't get its utility ...

I've noticed that a lot of mods are using A.I generated images for their thumbnails. This is to me a problem as A.I images is low effort and an insult to creativity.
There are even mods that are changing their thumbnails from what used to be an actual image of the mod itself to... an A.I image.

An ...