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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses a GOTY award over use of gen AI (www.polygon.com)
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[–] [S] 77 points 9 months ago (4 children)

tldr: they said during the application process that no gen ai was used. Since they lied, the Indie Game Awards pulled their GOTY

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  • [–] 49 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 launched with what some suspected to be AI-generated textures that, as it clarified to El País, were then replaced with custom assets in a swift patch five days after release.

    Fuck using Gen AI to replace human-made art, and fair enough for pulling the award, but I do think it's worth making it clear exactly how much of the art is/was AI. And the answer is, very little at launch and none currently.

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  • [–] 61 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I think the issue is much more that they lied on the application

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    This is most of it, but it is worth remembering that using GenAI/LLMs for placeholders is still bad. It's strictly unnecessary, has dubious efficiency gains at best, and you're still using tech that is provably hurting people and the environment en masse.

    I'm not going to hate Sandfall forever for this – it's not original sin – but it's still a very real error they should not repeat.

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