From what I remember people knew about the AI thing for a long time, but forgave it cause it was replaced immediately after release. I think what makes people upset at Lairion now is that they’re trying to dance around the AI problem instead of discussing it directly. They come up with tons of excuses whenever asked instead of just strongly sticking to their choice. It’s like whenever any big company gets called out for doing something stupid. They just do bad PR nonsense instead of saying what they actually mean.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 day ago
The fact that Clair Obscure Expedition 33 was well received as the best game of the year, and found out there was some use of Ai afterwards… tanked it reputation. But the results speak for themselves. This game does not look like Ai slop. This means, companies are motivated to hide this fact even more.
Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
GammaGames@beehaw.org 20 hours ago
Good news about Lairion: Larian announce plans to let folks ask anything about their generative AI use
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 23 hours ago
AI has a lot of problems beyond how it looks. I was going to play COE33 but I’m no longer interested.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 21 hours ago
Because they used, and then removed, placeholder AO generated textures in some unspecified location?
I hate to break it to you buddy but for the last 2 years every piece of software you’ve used, including this one, has had the dev experiment with AI tools.
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 20 hours ago
It wasn’t some unspecified location. There are images of the AI textures. Why should anyone believe they were placeholder textures as opposed to crap that they thought nobody would notice?
I’m not against the use of AI, so why you would assume that I do not know. I expect transparency on its use. The developers clearly were not transparent if it ever got to the point where they won an award despite a hard anti-AI rule.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 19 hours ago
They removed the AI content less than a week after release. By unspecified I mean it wasn’t a deliberate “this is the AI section”.
The awards were given 4 days ago, 6 months after release (more?). So the judgement is not on the game as it stands or even as it was submitted.
The awards don’t matter, I’m just genuinely baffled by this person depriving themselves of joy because of some virtue signalling that relies entirely on just not being aware of AI being used everywhere else.
Following the publication of this article, Sandfall Interactive wishes to provide the following clarifications.
The studio states that it was in contact with El País on April 25 - three months prior to this publication. During these exchanges, Sandfall Interactive indicated that it had used a limited number of pre-existing assets, notably 3D assets sourced from the Unreal Engine Marketplace. None of these assets were created using artificial intelligence. Sandfall Interactive further clarifies that there are no generative Al-created assets in the game. When the first Al tools became available in 2022, some members of the team briefly experimented with them to generate temporary placeholder textures. Upon release, instances of a placeholder texture were removed within 5 days to be replaced with the correct textures that had always been intended for release, but were missed during the Quality Assurance process.
Hegar@fedia.io 23 hours ago
My understanding is they only generated some textures, which everyone noticed and complained about, so they had to patch in human-created textures to replace them.
They also lost a goty award because they lied about having never used ai.
I don't think either of those situations would encourage hidden use of ai.