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Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage (insider-gaming.com)
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[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Also based on development timelines, these couple of textures were likely from the DallE-Mini era, long before anyone was even talking about ethical concerns with the tech and before fuckass Altman was a known name.

There's another article going around where they say they use a "little bit" of AI but they're very obviously referring to Unreal tools and regular old machine learning.

This whole thing is dramatically overblown. Absolutely fuck genAI and every data center should be bulldozed over. But this is a huge case over literally nothing.

E33 should be disqualified for all these awards for not being an indie game (the devs themselves have called it "AA" if I recall, and they had a sizeable budget to burn). Should genAI be tolerated in any part of the development process? Absolutely not. Should a game and studio be completely brought down because of 2022-ish placeholders from before the ethical issues of the tech were common knowledge, which were also quickly patched out in less than a week? Absolutely not.