It's not a "terrible mistake" to accidentally ship placeholder textures. Let's tone it down just a wee bit, maybe.

Anyway, I don't agree with banning generative AI, but if the award show wants to do so, go ahead. What has caused me to lose any respect for them is that they're doing this for such a silly reason. There's a huge difference between using AI to generate your actual textures and ship those, and.... accidentally shipping placeholder textures.

It really illustrates that this is more ideological than anything.