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[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 88 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Sandfall Interactive further clarifies that there are no generative AI-created assets in the game. When the first AI 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

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?

[–] kopasu22@lemmy.world 39 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

This is the same use case that people are currently up in arms against Larian for

[–] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 1 points 2 hours ago

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".

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 2 hours ago

Good. Burn both companies to the ground. Set them as an example.

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 18 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Can we put our collective pitchforks away for this case at least?

NO.

My pitchfork stays sharpened and at the ready until this stupid bubble pops.

[–] jali67@lemmy.zip -1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jali67@lemmy.zip -2 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Do you even have a tech background? How is a machine learning algorithm going to end humanity?

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Brain rot, job destruction, increased inequality, massive acceleration in global warming, massive decrease in the quality of critical systems, societal and economic collapse...

[–] jali67@lemmy.zip -3 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jali67@lemmy.zip -1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Well, you're not putting it to very good use.

[–] jali67@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I use machine learning all the time for stats what do you mean 😭

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 48 minutes ago

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?

[–] Agrivar@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jali67@lemmy.zip -2 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] KiloGex@lemmy.world -4 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Lol you think people on lemmy are going to put away their AI pitchforks?

[–] Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com 10 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Not in general but for this at least? Maybe?

[–] uncouple9831@lemmy.zip -3 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] mzesumzira@piefed.social 9 points 8 hours ago

Or maybe people are just fed up with AI being shoehorned into anything and their mum and overcorrect a bit?

[–] Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com 7 points 8 hours ago

No more than the ones pushing their pro-ai agenda.

<_<

[–] jali67@lemmy.zip -2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

When they understand the context behind this particular case, yes.

[–] uncouple9831@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 minutes ago

Has not been my experience. Rip your comment votes