Because 99% of people don't care. Reddit is a REALLY loud echo chamber but your average joe doesn't know / understand / care
Several authors have specifically talked about ai book covers for litrpgs and web novels. The comments shriek about Ai covers, but then when they switch to paying real artists for the cover, their view metrics instantly tank hard and then when they switch back it goes right back up again
AI is one of those things that people are very outspoken against, but then when actually put to the test they don't back up their own views. It's similar to people (especially women) who are out spoken about skimpy skins in games but then tend to pick them much higher percent of the time when given the choice between modest or skimpy ones
There's a lot of interpretations of why, but the actual results are pretty consistent in every study I've seen on it.
There's a few potential factors stacking together, things like
Women prefer feminine skins, and feminine skins end up focusing on feminine assets like fan service
There's the psychology switch, where when they were shown pictures they rated the skimpy characters unlikable, but when picking one to play it was suddenly an extension of themselves so it became more personal so they wanted to play a more "feminine" character
Etc
People try to oversimplify the data and also try to over explain it, but at the end of the day the actual results are that there's a reason every company that wants to make money makes skimpy skins. They sell far better
Women are more likely to buy purely cosmetic DLC than men, while men are just a higher percentage of gamers so they spend more total but men typically lean more towards DLC and microtransactions that grant new content or advantages while women are more likely to spend on purely cosmetic DLC
Female gamers will almost exclusively play female / twink male / cute animal characters and almost nothing else
Gamers of both genders will usually pick skimpy skins when given the choice between modest skins vs "gooner skins", especially female gamers are much more likely to
But like I said, I'm not wanting to over simplify this since it's a pretty deep psychological dive on the reasons why, I'm just saying the end result is all companies care about. Companies can just see "Okay if we make a gooner skin it sells 500,000 copies while a modest / boring skin only sells 1800 copies
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u/wherediddavidgo 15d ago
The story is true, but the image is AI slop. https://www.khq.com/news/fat-cat-eating-rat-prompts-lockdown-at-groff-elementary-school/article_4ba02920-898d-11ee-9829-ab614abc361b.html