I am trying to find more resources for rapid prototyping. Art assets are super useful for that, I specifically want assets that I can look at and then consider 'okay, what kind of game does this imply?' So I've been looking at Pixabay, which honestly looks like a really good resource full of different types of art I wouldn't think to use.
Here's the problem though! Pixabay has a lot of AI generated art, and a bunch of it doesn't say it's AI generated art. This puts me in the awful position of having to gauge the art I look at and go 'is this too good? is this too obviously good?' And what makes it more awkward is that a bunch of this art is not actually AI generated, but just good high quality art, meaning that now I'm looking at artists who are doing good art and uploading it for public use and then going 'uhhh, that's too good, clearly they cheated.'
Blegh.
This is all through layers of honestly, responsibility. If it's up on Pixabay and someone comes to me and goes 'hey, someone from Brazil uploaded my art to Pixabay,' I can at least go 'look, I used it 'cos it was on Pixabay and here's the provenance of that,' and I won't be at least visibly at fault. Because like, if I use your art without meaning to and you sue me for the whole net product of the game's profit, I might be able to buy you a happy meal, for most games.
Anyway, just frustrated, just silly. My options at this point are prety much split between:
- Use Pixabay, and conspicuously avoid art that's marked as AI Generated as it should be.
- Don't use Pixabay at all because I can't trust anything in it.
The second option looks like it's going to get harder and harder to do for online resources.