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[–] missingno@fedia.io 10 points 3 weeks ago

Temp assets, that are going to be replaced with human-made assets later on. Better than programmer art.

Programmer art makes it immediately recognizable as a placeholder. It's a feature.

I know there was a recent story about some game having AI assets in it that the publisher then claimed were placeholders that they just 'forgot' to replace.