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.
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.
Except in this case it wasn’t used to replace talented artists.
AI is precisely for this kind of work, the uninspired, “someone’s gotta do it” kind of boilerplate bullshit. No artist is enthusiastic about having to make brick pattern number 3591. But someone’s gotta make it. At that point, it might be just one artist generating all required 8000 patterns via AI, knocking it out in one day, then getting back to working on things that do require their talent.
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I was just about to buy this game too
Not now.
Fuck AI.
They used it for background assets but patched it quickly. It’s not as egregious as it sounds.
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.
AI has been around for years well before the LLM craze. It’s not all evil ffs.
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.
Except in this case it wasn’t used to replace talented artists.
AI is precisely for this kind of work, the uninspired, “someone’s gotta do it” kind of boilerplate bullshit. No artist is enthusiastic about having to make brick pattern number 3591. But someone’s gotta make it. At that point, it might be just one artist generating all required 8000 patterns via AI, knocking it out in one day, then getting back to working on things that do require their talent.
AI has not replaced any jobs to any significant degree
Tell that to all the people who lost their jobs.
Who?
Generative forms as we now know them have been around for 2 years.
I take it you never made it beyond high school?