Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 16 hours ago
I’m sure all of the recently out of work artists and programmers are heartbroken over another game that paid for gen AI instead of hiring them. I’m sure the AI company executives just needed the money more. Fuck whomever decided to AI in the Clair project management team. You could have actually deserved that awards. Good on the Indie Game Awards for actually supporting indie developers
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Did you even read? They used it for placeholders before replacing them with textures created by artists.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
They didn’t use it for placeholders (which wouldn’t excuse them anyway, if you want a placeholder you can pay an artist to make it).
They got caught using it in production and came up with the placeholder excuse (which no one who’s ever seen a placeholder texture would fall for) on the spot, throwing the QA team under the bus to try to cover what is clearly a systemic problem with the company.
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
You anti AI peeps are so dramatic about things. It’s like listening to your grandparents find every excuse to blame every problem on smartphones
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Smartphones are actually useful, and don’t have the moral, ethical, economic, societal, and existential issues that “generative AI” (which is neither generative nor intelligence) has.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
Considering the backlash, maybe it was silly of them to use it for placeholders.
BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
The real silly thing is how much energy is being spent on caring about something so inconsequential.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
If you had time for things that were consequential, you wouldn’t be paying video games.
Noodle07@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Also it was a small team not a full studio with millions