This seems like a pretty grass roots effort to me: mothers horrified that nude pictures of their 12yo daughters are being created with generative AI. These young girls (not yet women) are indeed victims, no narrative construction required, and stories like this can easily spread virally among parents, esp. mothers of girls, without any push needed. I'm not even sure tech regulation is needed or sought: a few lawsuits making this unprofitable as a mobile-first service will probably reduce the barrier-to-entry enough to protect most youngsters. Only the most motivated zoomers can use the command line.
I am suspicious of the fact that this appears to stem from a free service: I assume they are collecting data, but I thought using or storing images of minors required consent from a guardian in Europe?
Imputation is a fairly common technique that would be familiar to most molecular or computational geneticists, especially those used to working with poor samples. There are software packages to assist in the calculation.
The claim that the real value in art is in the idea rather than the execution seems to be as true as the claim that the real value in a startup is in the idea. Artists are constantly in dialogue with their tools to produce and define their idea, and to discover new ideas and capabilities along the way, in the same way the Intel head Andy Grove advised technologists to be involved in the engineering & production processes.
A game whose popularity & longevity has become a cliché, Skyrim, is usually played in 1st person. Myst & Doom were both known for their ability to engage players in a flow state in their heyday.
I take your point about narrative, but I think first-person games are giving players a different experience -- agency & flow -- compared to the identification you experience in a 3rd-person game.