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Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
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Sauce: https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-19/the-low-cost-creative-revolution-how-technology-is-making-art-accessible-to-everyone.html
Not exactly a massive AI slop problem, right?
Can we put our collective pitchforks away for this case at least?
This is the same use case that people are currently up in arms against Larian for
Not quite. Larian also wants to use it for concept art, which is not the same thing as placeholder assets. To give you a bit of context, the standard for placeholder textures at the software development companies I worked so far has mostly been "vaguely fitting images you found on Google".
Atleast in my experience bigger companies have either their own libraries, libraries of bought assets or dedicated sites with free to use stuff, so they can use the placeholdes without a risk of having copyrighted stuff in the files.
Concept art is little tricky because it often is 10 version of the same character or random piece of the scenery and it takes hundreds of pieces and revision before art director finally decites "this is it, this is what our game looks like". Personally i dont care if those are drawn on a paper or made in photoshop, paint, by a ai tool or trowing wet cats on a canvas. In the end i care that human decites what they are going to use and artist finishes the model. I dont see the point having artist spend their time creating seven different looking bandoliers for the protagonist, when nobody even knows if any version of those end in the game.
And i just want to say way before the consept art when the product is in its early planning state there are often "feeling boards" that are just i want our game to feel like picture of breath of the wild and picture of skyrim or picture of cuphead and picture of warm and cozy fireplace and these feeling boards may stay in use until the very end of the production.
Good. Burn both companies to the ground. Set them as an example.
NO.
My pitchfork stays sharpened and at the ready until this stupid bubble pops.
It's not a bubble though. That's like waiting for the internet bubble to pop back in the 90s. AI will be around from now on, just not as such an in your face way. It will eventually become ubiquitous, just like many other pieces of tech.
This massive new economic sector that is eclipsing the GDP of most nations combined in under 10 years, which is almost entirely subsidized by a combination of venture capital, which is being forced in to any product that involves electricity regardless of suitability, this industry and that loses money every time a user interacts with it (even the paying customers) is not a bubble?
Please, enlighten us on what you think an economic bubble is. A lot of us were around for the dotcom bubble; to say it was not one, when we were standing there watching the market rise into the stratosphere and come crashing down, is a bit much.
The AI was used for background assets that they failed to remove but patched quickly after. It’s not as egregious as the headline makes it out to be.
I think you misunderstood me. All AI is humanity-ending garbage that needs to be eliminated. I don't give two figs how or where it's used - I want it all gone.
From your votes and lack of response I can indeed surmise that you're a hypocrite who's never had a remote semblance of an opinion about AI until it's become fashionable to hate it, whereupon you promptly jumped on the bandwagon and started shouting about how all AI ruins the planet, regardless of the nuances that are too much for you to think of. It's remarkable how loud schmucks like you can hijack the conversation. Just cry wolf as much as you can, that's enough for the entirety of the cognitive capacity of yourself and people like you. What an embarrassment.
AI that finds protein foldings or cures for cancer is humanity-ending? Careful with that stretching, you might hurt yourself.
You can list a thousand nifty end results of AI and it won't change the impact it's having on our environment right now.
How about this: we put all this nonsense on hold until we solve cold fusion first?
The impact directly depends on the area of application. AlphaFold has been around for at least seven years, it's got jackshit to do with the current LLM bubble. Were you against AlphaFold in 2020, or are you a hypocrite?
If you want a government with the kind of regulatory power to "put all this nonsense on hold" why not use that regulatory power to generate cleaner energy and solve the problem? The current clean energy sources we have right now are cheaper than what's currently being used for energy generation. They're also faster to get online and can be put in more places. The reason we're not using those sources right now is because of politics, not economics or technology. The solution to environmental damage caused by energy production is to use cleaner energy. Stopping people from using technology on the user level won't do much of anything.
Do you even have a tech background? How is a machine learning algorithm going to end humanity?
Brain rot, job destruction, increased inequality, massive acceleration in global warming, massive decrease in the quality of critical systems, societal and economic collapse...
Explain how an AI calculating protein foldings will cause brain rot, job destruction, increased inequality, massive acceleration in global warming, massive decrease in the quality of critical systems, and societal and economic collapse.
Explain how protein folding software, which predates "genAI" by decades and has as many similarities with it as with Tetris, has anything to do with this conversation.
You have trouble following your own train of thought, apparently. You replied in a thread claiming “All AI is humanity-ending garbage”, claiming it causes “Brain rot, job destruction, increased inequality, massive acceleration in global warming, massive decrease in the quality of critical systems, societal and economic collapse”, and then you ask me where you said what you said. Lay off the drugs before you completely fry your brains, dumbass.
That’s fearmongering. It has use cases and has had them well before this LLM AI bubble. The bubble will pop and hopefully these CEOs are actually charged unlike 2008.
By feeding people's collective cynicism, lack of social skills, general paranoia, lack of trust in each other, waning hope for the future, etc.
Do have a humanities background? All tech people should have one.
Explain how an AI calculating protein foldings feeds people’s collective cynicism, lack of social skills, general paranoia, lack of trust in each other, waning hope for the future, and whatnot.
It's not. Trap circumvented. Do you have another question?
Oh, so your approach to arguments is just to deny that you said what you said? Amazing skills there. You replied to a thread claiming that “All AI is humanity-ending garbage” claiming it does that “by feeding people's collective cynicism, lack of social skills, general paranoia, lack of trust in each other, waning hope for the future, etc.”, and then you say you didn't say that. So you just lie, and that's your entire argument? Maybe learn to follow the most basic of argumentation logic.
You don't even know why I said that. Why do I have to suffer people who are incapable of reconstructing someone else's argument?
The ML approach to protein folding is a different system, used in different ways, by different people. Your insistance on conflating a data analysis technique with a robot that will pretend to be your girlfriend is utterly bizarre. It's so oblivious and unaware, I don't even know what to do with it. It's like you want people to dislike protein folding. I don't understand why your camp insists on treating these like they're the same thing.
Except I do, actually: it's the card says moops. A very Republican tactic, if I'm being honest.
I have both actually. There are many, many use cases for AI and again, they were used before people like you even knew it was a concept.
Well, you're not putting it to very good use.
I use machine learning all the time for stats what do you mean 😭
Stats.
Does anyone else think that the old refrain of letting nerds run the world was actually incredibly misguided because nearly all of them lack the social skills necessary to not be sociopaths?
As a nerd who slowly grasped social skills over decades, while most of my cohort did not - yes, hard agree. Case in point - the AI-zealot posting all over this thread.
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I salute ye for your hard work on yourself.
Nerds? You mean a select few oligarchs? Nothing wrong with learning and technology. I know over half of Americans read at a middle school level and think they’re all geniuses from social media and memes. However, some of us do enjoy intellectual pursuits and technology for good use. This shit hole country decided to vote for this administration that is hostile towards everyday people and doesn’t believe in regulating a bunch of malicious billionaires.
I was a network engineer at one of the biggest backbones on Earth before retiring. Before that, I designed and programmed industrial automation. So, no tech background at all.
Now that that's out of the way: a blind squirrel could see that sucking up all the energy and wasting endless fresh water is a bad thing for the environment. The "bigger-than-2008" market crash that's also coming won't help.
You have no idea what an 'AI' is, so apparently none of that tech background helped if you're still that ignorant.
And again, AI has been around for many years before the LLM craze and these select few companies advocating to shove it in all our faces, forcefully pushing data centers everywhere and integrating it into as much as they can. That is not something that could or should be done with AI. It is these company executives choosing to push it like this. It wasn’t always like this nor did it have to be
Lol you think people on lemmy are going to put away their AI pitchforks?
I don't like billion dollar corporations, and I'd be fine to stop and leave that be all the context, but I also don't like them using technology to manufacture truth while polluting the earth to do it.
So tell your coders to give you a tune up, the damage control algorithm didn't pan out.
Why are you responding to me? Your message doesn't seem to have anything to do with my statement that lemmy is a hive mind circle jerk over AI (and steam, etc.)
When they understand the context behind this particular case, yes.
Has not been my experience. Rip your comment votes
Yeah I figured this app had more tech savvy and educated people. Evidently, it’s littered with people that barely got through high school.
Not in general but for this at least? Maybe?
Nah there's already a slap fight down in the comments between the hard liners and the "can't we just give it a rest" folks. It's gotten to the point I'm convinced there's at least a few ai bots generating hate spam against ai bots.
Or maybe people are just fed up with AI being shoehorned into anything and their mum and overcorrect a bit?
A bit? People on this reddit-lite platform seem to care more about clair obscur using AI for concept art than they do about murdering Venezuelans and the US turning to literal piracy. A bit doesn't begin to describe.
No more than the ones pushing their pro-ai agenda.
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Are there pro-ai posts? I don't think I've ever seen any. My posts are ai-neutral at best and I still get downvoted to oblivion.