BreakFree - A Social Revolution Lasers & Feelings Hack

I agree with the comment, this feels very yucky to me to use AI, especially with a theme and a medium like this one. As an illustrator myself TTRPG is such a nice space where handmade illustration is still needed and valued, please don't let that change.

Plus the ecological + social cost and issues with AI are really... yeah, something.

I fully understand that paying an illustrator may be too much (even if it may be pretty cheap for one illustration), especially since your game is non-commercial. 

Photobashing, using and modifying archive photos, doing a shitty drawing is infinitely more human and anticapitalist than using AI. 

I get your point about not biasing toward a particular movement, but i think we should not erase the previous fights (especially not with AI). There was a lot of unafiliated protest, strikes and revolts.

Anyway sorry if this is a little harsh but I got your game with the Trans bundle and was as excited to play it as I was disappointed to see the AI picture

See, I understand where you're coming from, but like... in using AI art, you already are co-opting specific movements, bcs the way AI art generators work is by taking previous pieces of art and mixing/recombining them.

If you had taken something from the public domain, you would be doing far less harm to the artists from the movements you're trying to celebrate in this piece than you are by using a machine that steals their work without credit or compensation. To say nothing of the outsized impact LLMs have on climate change, which is a threat to all progressive movements. I can see your heart was in the right place, but I'm afraid you're doing a helluva lot more harm than good here.

Like others here, I'm interested in this game, disappointed by the AI art, and I want to encourage you to rerelease this with public domain art or commissioned art. I'd feel much happier about playing it and your creation would be consistent with the ideals of the game.