As much as I hate to admit it, non-flagrant AI use will likely become generally accepted. The truth is that there's a lot of content in games these days that sometimes just isn't that important to dedicate man hours to it (Ex: Generic brick texture #431). The fact that this slipped through the cracks is proof enough.

However, overly slacking to the point the end point looks obviously AI generated with just bad art. It's pretty much akin to just delegating to some shady third party studio that works for pennies and spits out generic, low quality stuff.

Ethics and copyright, are of course, different questions entirely. (In my opinion most AI providers are committing blatant copyright infringement by using machines that crunch down copyrighted data and resell it back to you). But it seems like Silicon Valley's marketing and public relations team managed to figure out the copyright one at this point. <>/

Edit: 3 AM, and tired.