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I see many fans of the game defending the use of AI.
Firstly, the game has already received enough awards, so it doesn't matter, and secondly, you would all protest against another game studio if it used AI...
In short: Fuck AI and fuck everyone who advocates/tolerates its use!
I don't really care about game awards but it does seem like some retroactive application of opinion on genAI if they used it in 2022. There was a very different landscape and general opinion on genAI in 2022, (nonone really knew or cared.) I suspect the award show made the rule about genAI after 2022.
Either way, happy to see more press about good games, be it C33 or Blue Prince.
So are they getting a different award for using AI and ending up with something that isn’t slop?
I suppose this is a warning to any companies who were thinking about disclosing their uses of AI for placeholders
From what I've heard, the placeholders came from some stock Unreal engine textures they used and forgot to replace.
Given the Lemmy view on AI, I wonder how many folks are now uninstalling the game and demanding a refund because it's suddenly transformed into "AI slop"? Or demanding it be delisted from Steam since they didn't disclose their use of AI on Steam?
I'm not going to uninstall or demand a refund, but I fully support the Indie Game Awards decision on this and will not refer to CO:E33 as a winner of any of the Indie Game Awards. I will still call it IMO the best JRPG in many years, but I thought that before it started receiving awards.
I hope this event serves to scare game studios of all sizes from the mere appearance of using AI at ANY scale or part of the process. Hell, I hope it causes the whole damn bubble to burst, but it's just not that important.
They already got the publicity and award ceremony. Apparently they only provide tickets for members, everybody else had to buy their tickets up to 7k. Fuck those awards anyway..
I dont understand the purity tests we are putting artists through
AI is just a tool. It can be used correctly to assist in making a gopd product, or a lazy artist can make slop (a lazy artist will produce crap regardless AI or not)
If its wrong to use AI to make filler material, then is speedtree wrong for allowing environmental artists to take a shortcut and not have to hand craft every tree in their game world?
like, minus all the plagarism and energy use issues. If wre are speaking strictly of artistic integrity or whatever, i dont see the problem in using AI to assist artists (as opposed to outright replacing them)
I dont understand the purity tests we are putting artists through
I love how "don't break the rules and lie about it when entering a contest" is a purity test, now. Y'all are fucking wild.
Seems silly to require ALL the unit tests pass, too, cut them some slack. /s
I don't know anything about this game.
I also know that game awards are a bunch of bullshit so I don't give a fuck.
Also, I noticed this game is on my wishlist. Huh.
I hate when people try to shift the goalposts
These guys didn't disclose the usage of AI when initially sold as well as for the award, and there's nothing more to it than that
There's still not even a disclaimer on the steam store page or anything
Wait until they find out some indie games will use copyrighted placeholders…
It's still game of the year in my heart.
