It can be a pretty a serious and offensive accusation for sure. When a dev voices their own characters in a game and has a flat affect and/or stilted speech pattern, it's inevitable to be called AI by someone. Art I don't understand or appreciate? Likely AI. Unimpressed by a Eurovision entry? Call it AI. Some people toss this around casually, but I wouldn't.
I made myself known to be a big fool ~4 years ago. A local newspaper published an article on a particular person with outrageous claims primarily using photographs as proof. I challenged the editor directly via email, laying out my reasoning for why I was sure the images were manipulated. My arguments relied on misunderstandings on my part and the person claims were levied against showing zero deviation in position and stance while posing with multiple people during a meet-and-greet. The editor was offended and trolled me in response. I didn't let up, and he realized I was an idiot, not an agitator, and shared the full unpublished video from where the photos were taken with me, at which point I apologized deeply and made a donation. My ego was appropriately small for the following year.
Before emailing him, I shared the photos with some level-headed friends for their opinion, specifically because I didn't want to make a false accusation. They came to the same conclusion that the images were most likely manipulated, so I was very confident going in.
Now I trust this paper and people involved implicitly, but this was a lot of work to convince just one person.
I made myself known to be a big fool ~4 years ago. A local newspaper published an article on a particular person with outrageous claims primarily using photographs as proof. I challenged the editor directly via email, laying out my reasoning for why I was sure the images were manipulated. My arguments relied on misunderstandings on my part and the person claims were levied against showing zero deviation in position and stance while posing with multiple people during a meet-and-greet. The editor was offended and trolled me in response. I didn't let up, and he realized I was an idiot, not an agitator, and shared the full unpublished video from where the photos were taken with me, at which point I apologized deeply and made a donation. My ego was appropriately small for the following year.
Before emailing him, I shared the photos with some level-headed friends for their opinion, specifically because I didn't want to make a false accusation. They came to the same conclusion that the images were most likely manipulated, so I was very confident going in.
Now I trust this paper and people involved implicitly, but this was a lot of work to convince just one person.