For example users like this one: https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/profile/New+Horizon+Creators and many others like him, will quickly create an image in a minute and then upload it to the store. Of course it will hardly make any sales but this is deeply troubling for many reasons.
-Anyone can generate the same in a minute and there is no need to buy it or put it on a store.
-You cannot find anything anymore because the marketplace is littered with useless trash.
-It takes time from curators who can actually review real assets instead.
-Also AI generated content is by essence stolen content. Tools like midjourney used content without artists permission (stolen) to “train”. This basically means the original artist can see artwork he/she created being used in a game or on this marketplace and then make a lawsuit because he never put his work for sale (In many cases midjourney will basically generate images which are hardly any different from the original).
-Also these sellers in many cases do not even mention that they used AI to generate these images.
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