Can I ask why AI art is allowed "when needed"? When is it ever needed? If they need a background, surely an already created one is better than AI given what the AI art does to artists. And please, I might just not know enough about it so I'm open to more knowledge.
Usually those backgrounds are either photos or stock photos. Sometimes it is feasible to take things out and shoot your own photos.
Other times stock photo backgrounds may work.
Even with stock art, the use of AI to generate the backgrounds is so prevalent… we just don’t see that as close to as big of an issue as with the product itself. Its just sometimes not very practical to find or take that “perfect background photo”.
We want real artists working on our stuff and we are VERY supportive of our artist community being a part of that - both with stuff we do ourselves and products generated by our partners.
Hope that makes sense. :)