When artists arent available a rendered placeholder would give a more appropriate proof of concept than blank textures with text on them.

A semantics discussion isnt required to know that to do something responsibly, that it means to act in good faith and to be confidently informed enough to do so. We measure responsibility by the absence of harm.

Sure, that works too.

I could think of of plenty examples, but a good use for pirating would be Disco Elysium - the publishers stole the IP of the creators unjustly, so it would be cobsidered by many ethical to not purchase the game and instead pirate it and donate a comfortable amount to the actual creators patreons. You are actuallu combating theft, in this instance.

But of course it would not be responsible to pirate most indie games

This feels like unecessary absolutism and fear mongeting. I am by no means an AI lover, but people shouldn’t let the worst implimentations of something cloud their judgement.

I feel the question should be “Does this project use AI responsibly?” not “Was AI used?”

Maybe what we should be advocating for is transparency with these decisions?

“That’s kinda how announcement trailers usually go?” Isn’t an appeal to tradition or a moral preference statement, which you seem to interpreted it as… It was just questioning your expectations. They are simply pointing out that you judged the trailer for being something it was never expected to be.

Announcement trailers are non-committal by design - it’s the formal declaration of a project without making promises that are too early to make.

Jesus - how do you all sleep at night?!?!??

it runs perfectly on proton.

seems like an unnecessary workload for an already busy team of developers