Personally as an artist irl I tend to overlook anything with AI as AI conflicts with my personal worldview. I tend to view art more philosophically (how, why, when, etc) as opposed to a thing to advertise your mod/product (not that there’s anything wrong with that either).
My impression of strict programmers is that they are looking for a means to an end, an image to get people to check out their product, marketing, advertising, or just a placeholder image. So a lot of them like AI because it fulfills these requirements.
I don’t know how the average non-programmer/non-artist views AI and how it affects whether it not they download a mod but I know a lot of artists will just automatically overlook it, so, if someone is using AI that is something to accept. And I am speaking generally here this isn’t applicable to everyone, but it is my impression of a lot of programmers and fellow artists I’ve spoken to?