AI Slop and the Degradation of the Nintendo eShop

Late last night, I received an email regarding AI slop, this email:

The email not does make any sense at all, why would my complaining drive his AI usage? He’s also dead wrong about me and AI. I am not opposed to AI usage. I am opposed to “AI Slop,” like what Pakotime puts out. These games are quickly shat out cash grabs with minimal effort that clog up the eShop and drive better games off the list. I have complained about them endlessly, like with Jigsaw Ice Princess. Ice Princess came out in October 2023. Not only has the flow of slop not stopped, its arguably gotten even worse since then.

AI Slop and Me

But what about my usage of AI images? Doesn’t that make me a hypocrite? No, because I don’t have a problem with using AI. Its a tool, used for good or evil. In fact, that image he’s referring to was generated by WordPress itself as it has a featured image generator built in. Furthermore, AI images are useful for articles, as I don’t have money for an artist to draw an image or buy stock images. In addition, I am not charging money for these articles.

Meanwhile, AI slop can range from a few dollars, to twenty! A developer is charging real money for AI generated images, and often not very good ones either. The games attached are usually identical “arrange the tiles” or a jigsaw puzzle. I view it as an outright scam. Also a scam are the AI generated marketing images on some games that hide what a game really is. Look I don’t care if a developer is using AI for coding or back end stuff. I do care if they’re charging for a shitty jigsaw game with AI generated images and slapping “hentai” in the title. It reeks of sheer laziness for a paid product when honest developers spend thousand on actual art.

I wouldn’t even be writing this article if that email was the only one to bring my AI usage up, others have as well. AI slop has damaged the Nintendo eShop and frankly my usage of AI images is irrelevant because I’m not charging for a sub-par product. Instead of yelling at me, yell at Pakotime to stop releasing a game a week!

P.S. If you’re wondering, my response to his email was a condensed version of this article. It is as follows:

If the author had subscribed to this blog, maybe he would have made sense!