Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage

maximumbird@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• jali67@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They used it for background assets but patched it quickly. It’s not as egregious as it sounds.

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  • maximumbird@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Read the article. I understand.

    It’s not an excuse. I just simply don’t support AI slop. AT. ALL. I don’t care that they used it for a placeholder texture. And that texture didn’t end up in final release. If I have anything to say about it, these companies will not get my money if they dipped their toes in AI. AT. ALL.

    There are workers that could have made placeholder textures for fucks sake.

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    • jali67@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      AI has been around for years well before the LLM craze. It’s not all evil ffs.

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      • tonytins@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        While AI is just tool like anything else, the fact it is being used to replace talented artists just to save a quick buck is why it is understandably being called evil. Context matters.

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      • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Generative forms as we now know them have been around for 2 years.

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    • KiloGex@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There were no artists who would have been paid to create placeholder textures. They would have used textures from open source sources, or from previously used textures.

      I agree that AI should never replace the job a person could do, but in this instance the user of AI caused no loss of income.

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      • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This is the kind of nuance I came back to the comments for. It’s an interesting question and I would like more details on how various game studios typically treat such material. Is it some stock photo? And if so, are they paying for it?

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  • nfreak@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A contractor used it for placeholder background assets in 2022 when the best genAI tech available was DallE-Mini and literally no one was even remotely aware of any ethical concerns yet.

    Like I get that time feels nonexistent since 2020 but people seem to forget genAI was literally not even a known thing until 2024 at the earliest.

    Today genAI and all those who support it in any capacity deserve to rot in hell, and it shouldn’t even be used for placeholders or concepts at any stage in the process. That’s a given. But why are we applying 2025 standards to something clearly done at a time before anyone knew anything about this shit?

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