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[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Fuuuuck. I don't really care about this one, but now I'm worried they're slopping up Dark Heresy too.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 3 points 3 hours ago

Huh, weird, you weren't supposed to see that in the final version. But we fired the guy responsible and we're sorry that we got caught

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 27 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

If we conveniently forget about how unethical all AI is, Slay the Spire shows that no game needs generative AI for “placeholder” content and Expedition 33 shows that it can and will slip through the cracks. Don’t. Fucking. Use. It.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Yep. I saw one slop picture from a new game that I was actually excited to buy, and even though it was "oh, we only used it as a placeholder and just forgot to remove after tehehe", I immediately lost all the interest, and will not buy it now. Later I learned that the quests there are nonsensical and a bit disjointed, and the story is stupid, and I can tell you, I'm not surprised at all.
LLM is like that black goo, everything it touches gets corrupted forever.

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If you're using AI in your process, even early in development, it means the game is no longer 100% human made, so stop the bullshit.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Literally every game that's made today is using AI as part of the development process.

Damn near every Dev has tab completion on in their IDE. Which is AI based.

[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

What do you mean "tab completion is AI based"? We have had tab completion for years before LLMs were a thing.

[–] harcesz@szmer.info 6 points 8 hours ago

Some people just dont want my money. [Steps out into the airlock]

[–] Specter@piefed.social 16 points 12 hours ago
[–] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

And just like that I added it to my ignored list on Steam

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Same. Steam is so inundated with AI slop that I'm now following like a dozen different curators that flag AI usage, for the cases when the developers "forget" to fill out their AI disclosure field D: (which I've restyled to be red and on the top of the page)

[–] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I only know of AI Check which had to make a second account cause they already hit the limit with how many games they were marking as containing AI.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I went through my curator list just now; these are the largest/most active ones:

[–] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

Thanks! Followed all of them, although not a fan of "Does this game use GenAI" adding games that they don't think have any. I get it's being informational, but at that point you might as well do like Half-Life just to say it doesn't have any.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 99 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If your placeholder doesn't stick out like a sore thumb, it's a bad placeholder. There is literally no workflow in which temporary assets shat by AI would be useful.

They just want to normalize AI use until people don't care anymore. And with the waste of resources this shit represents, I just hope this never happens.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You don't see the use in an artist viewing an approximation of the finished product in order to see what can be improved?

Do you suppose all conductors just write symphonies in their heads and never have to hear them out loud before deciding they're done? Would it be useful to replace the tuba with a placeholder of a duck quacking, or do you think they might want it to sound like a tuba even though it's not the final product?

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Even a cheap toy synthetizer can make something close enough to a tuba sound to get an idea of what it sounds like. Need something better? people make sound fonts for that.

But maybe it's better to use generative AI to potentially have something close to the real thing, just so you can have huge datacenters consuming absurd amounts of power and water too.

[–] gazter@aussie.zone 3 points 6 hours ago

What are ya, a shill for the toy synthesizer companies?!?! They just want to take jobs away from us hard working tuba players!!n

[–] AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.ca 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (6 children)

Gonna preface this by saying I'm obviously a huge Expanse fan so my opinion is definitely biased. My username is a character from The Expanse and I consider it both my favorite TV show and book series ever. Wanted to make that clear up front.

That being said, if the game is good and they eventually replace the slop assets with proper assets, then what does it matter? As much as I like Lemmy, the hardline stances the community tends to take pisses me off at times. "Oh you're not a full blown communist and haven't read Marx? You're no better than a nazi you filthy shitlib"

Or regarding "AI" (hate that they called it that, it's basically just a smarter auto correct thats existed in smartphone keyboards for years now) anyone that doesn't automatically and passionately hate AI or any of its uses is automatically demonized as a supporter of big tech. Don't get me wrong, I fucking hate 90% of what "AI" does and is used for, especially how corpos are using it as an excuse to lay off real people and how dumbasses are relying on it as pure truth when it constantly hallucinates bullshit. I don't support "AI" and I can't wait for the bubble to burst.

There's almost zero nuance here, it's 90% "you're with us or you're against us" with no room for anything in between.

If the game is good and they replace the slop assets with real assets when it's released next year then who fucking cares that they used AI, what matters is whether the game is good or not and whether the devs are treated and paid well. Expedition 33 used AI in earlier iterations and it all got replaced with real assets eventually but that didn't stop Lemmy from shitting on one of the best games (IMO) to come out within the last decade once that became public.

You wanna make this place a more mainstream alternative to big tech controlling everything? Get off your high horse and accept that there's nuance to everything, it's not just black and white. Otherwise this place will continue to scare off new users faster than it can gain them. I consider myself to be a progressive, I'm Canadian and I've only voted NDP since I was able to vote and I'm now 32. I also really respect AOC, Mamdani, and Sanders in the states, so I'm already close enough to the target demographic of Lemmy if you exclude the tankie trifecta (ml, hexbear, and grad) and even I get sick of the circlejerk here at times.

Judge something when you can actually have a proper opportunity to do so rather than getting preemptively pissed off because they had the audacity to use something you don't like.

If the game comes out and still has slop in it and/or just sucks in general, then yeah, shit on it all you want, and I'll be first in line to join the club cause I absolutely love The Expanse and I'll be immensely disappointed if it turns out bad.

Again, in the interest of honesty and transparency, I usually prefer to just throw my opinions out there and not read or respond to replies when it's something that I know is gonna be controversial so I won't be replying to anyone that replies to this comment. I really hate arguing with random people on the internet so I just ignore replies for the most part.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

You're right. It's the same god damn mindless circle jerks you get in every online forum. This is why bots are undetectable, because they fit right in by commenting without actually thinking.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It’s my favorite book too. I’m conflicted. AI isn’t going back in the box.

At the same time, it’s kinda like the way Belters are treated, barely getting their needs met in favor of corporate profits. AI is doing the same thing to a lot of people looking for work and is built off stolen labor.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

So what you're saying is we should drop rocks on the data centers, right?

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

No. I’m saying we should be more thoughtful about how we use it and train it.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Pensa you one of them, ke? Inyalowda no care bout welwala like you, sasa.

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[–] TheGreenWizard@lemmy.zip 32 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Open up paint and doodle it for Christ's sake, these guys "forget" to go back and change it I've noticed, so just don't use it, boom, problem solved.

[–] I_Jedi@lemmy.today 10 points 22 hours ago

Guarantee they still have a chip on their shoulder about their art teacher telling them to stop using stick figures back in the day.

[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 52 points 1 day ago

Whelp, my interest in The Expanse Osiris Reborn has officially died...Rest in Piss, Owlcat!

[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, fuck. At least we got Rogue Trader and the Pathfinder games before enshittification began.

[–] Egonallanon@feddit.uk 36 points 1 day ago (7 children)

My question is if everything is going to be human made in the end why bother using at all? You won't even get any of the much vaunted time savings at that point.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Every other commenter under this seems to forget that stock assets exist and worked fine for decades without involving AI slop.

[–] PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stock assets (at least if you need more than the absolutely basics) cost quite a bit. Programmer art can work, but if you want something close to the tone of the finished product, still takes time and thus money. Slop is quick and free.

Frankly, given the fact that placeholder assets are literally meant to be utilitarian, disposable, "just good enough" work, it's actually not a terrible use case. Placeholders are meant to be slop either way, so not much is lost by automating it, so long as it is actually removed after.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 15 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Placeholder assets are generally better if they look out of place because then you don't forget to replace them 😅

AI art generation is trained to be just good enough to fly under the rader if not looked at too closely...

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[–] oicasado@lemmy.eco.br 25 points 1 day ago
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