This is always something that annoys the fuck out of me.
If an artist wants to make a shitty video game, they are totally allowed to just go download some sort of premade engine like RenPy, throw together a dogshit visual novel or something, and they get praised for it because "well the art style is good". Zero code of their own, copy/pasting code from tutorials is completely acceptable, using ChatGPT to write code, etc. They're still a "game dev".
But when a programmer wants to make a video game and they do anything but hire an artist for all their assets, they are creative Hitler. Absolutely cannot use anything you didn't make/pay for, AI is strictly forbidden because it is "stealing", and god fucking forbid you ask for volunteers to work with you on your game because it is unacceptable to ask artists to work "for free" or "for exposure", even if it is only a fan game with no profits or something.
Even Steam will allow the former, and not the latter. They don't give a shit where your code comes from, but if there's a single even thought that you used AI art, your game is banned.
It's such a massive double standard. Programming/coding is expected to be free and open, but art is strictly locked down and only allowed if you are an "artist" yourself. "Just pick up the pen and learn lol", sure, as soon as you go pick up a Python tutorial.