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Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage (insider-gaming.com)
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[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sure all of the recently out of work artists and programmers are heartbroken over another game that paid for gen AI instead of hiring them. I'm sure the AI company executives just needed the money more. Fuck whomever decided to AI in the Clair project management team. You could have actually deserved that awards. Good on the Indie Game Awards for actually supporting indie developers

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Did you even read? They used it for placeholders before replacing them with textures created by artists.

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

Considering the backlash, maybe it was silly of them to use it for placeholders.

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The real silly thing is how much energy is being spent on caring about something so inconsequential.

[–] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

If you had time for things that were consequential, you wouldn't be paying video games.

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world -1 points 3 hours ago

Also it was a small team not a full studio with millions

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

They didn't use it for placeholders (which wouldn't excuse them anyway, if you want a placeholder you can pay an artist to make it).

They got caught using it in production and came up with the placeholder excuse (which no one who's ever seen a placeholder texture would fall for) on the spot, throwing the QA team under the bus to try to cover what is clearly a systemic problem with the company.

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

You anti AI peeps are so dramatic about things. It's like listening to your grandparents find every excuse to blame every problem on smartphones

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 33 minutes ago

Smartphones are actually useful, and don't have the moral, ethical, economic, societal, and existential issues that “generative AI” (which is neither generative nor intelligence) has.