from viewing the icon section, it seems that the current policy is that only icons in the regular section and the HD section get reviewed and the other types just get left as pending (none of the AI generated ones have been reviewed, and the ported ones are backed up more than 100 pages..). It's possible the moderator just has a long to do list, and in that case this whole post is irrelevant.
If indeed this is the policy I want to argue that AI generated icons deserve to be reviewed. Generating relevant and accurate images is not a given, it takes time and know-how, with very large variance in results. Especially for icons in wC3 where there are pretty clear parameters of what make an icon good and useful in game.
If the regular icon section was only for things that were drawn from scratch, I would understand the reluctance more, but a lot of the icons in the icon section are touched up screenshots of models. I am not minimizing the effort put in to making those, but I think a comparable amount of personal ability is needed to create decent icons with AI (I don't just mean slapping a BTN border on anything you generate), and IMO they are not less original than a screenshot of an existing model (even though that is the time honored tradition ).
If indeed this is the policy I want to argue that AI generated icons deserve to be reviewed. Generating relevant and accurate images is not a given, it takes time and know-how, with very large variance in results. Especially for icons in wC3 where there are pretty clear parameters of what make an icon good and useful in game.
If the regular icon section was only for things that were drawn from scratch, I would understand the reluctance more, but a lot of the icons in the icon section are touched up screenshots of models. I am not minimizing the effort put in to making those, but I think a comparable amount of personal ability is needed to create decent icons with AI (I don't just mean slapping a BTN border on anything you generate), and IMO they are not less original than a screenshot of an existing model (even though that is the time honored tradition ).