3 daysWhat really pisses me off here is that this is the butchery of an actual art piece. They had a fantastic work but they wanted to shift the characters around a little for box art and had an AI do it.
- 3 days
Yep, that’s slop alright.
One big tell to me is how highlights always get slightly brighter just before hitting the outline. It’s kind of a similar effect to when you turn the sharpness filter up on a TV, and it looks terrible. And yeah, there are a ton of strange noisy messy shape salad parts that are a defining characteristic of “AI” “art”.
- Tim_Bisley@piefed.socialEnglish3 days
We need to get a handle on this before it becomes more difficult to distinguish. Companies have demonstrated they will sneak AI assets into development without a second thought.
How is this any worse than airbrushing models and Photoshopping movie posters?
- Tim_Bisley@piefed.socialEnglish2 days
The difference is a person is paid to airbrush or Photoshop. AI analyzed an existing piece of artwork someone created, copied it, then spit out a slightly modified version and called it an original creation.
AI analyzed an existing piece of artwork someone created, copied it, then spit out a slightly modified version and called it an original creation.
“AI” did none of those things. As much as you want to personify tools, a human was paid to use LLMs to generate that output. It did not magically create that out of its own free will. These are not people, and they do not act on their own.
- Ankkuli@sh.itjust.worksEnglish2 days
Please don’t try to bring common sense to Lemmy, we like to be in a hateful circlejerk here.
- Holytimes@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 day
Blame the tool! The unthinking tool! Think of the poor ceos who would have to deal with bad pr if you don’t blame the tools!
- 3 days
It’s some ugly slop no matter how it was made. Lot of speculation they took several screenshots or renders and asked AI to cartoonify and upscale.
- 3 days
Looks like Castle Oblivion, which was a major plot point in several games. It has a very “Escher met Castlevania, then got puked on by Disney” vibe.
I hate how the sora faces are all at the same angle despite their bodies being different. Even if they had a real person make this if they did it the same it would still look terrible.
The image seems to be completely absent from the article. Not even a link. It might be this one?
It is not embedded in the article, but shown through an embedded X message, hence my comment.
I’m a bit torn on it tbh because it looks like how Nomura usually designs his characters.
- 3 days
Yeah, this actually looks similar to the early concept sketches that Nomura cooked up. Back before Disney noticed he was trying to put a chainsaw-wielding character next to Donald and Goofy, and told him to chill out.
The original concept was that the keyblade was going to be an end-game weapon that you worked towards, while the primary weapon was going to be a chainsaw. Then Disney went “hey-… Uhh… We noticed you’re going to put a chainsaw-wielding 12 year old next to Donald and Goofy. Maybe fucking don’t do that?? Take it down like two notches.” So Nomura pivoted and just gave Sora the keyblade right at the start of the game.
seeing the image I really can’t tell if it’s Nomura fucked up the eyes and hands or if its AI tbh
- 3 days
Oofta, these companies just don’t fucking learn. Of course, Square Enix already wants to use LLMs for QA, it doesn’t surprise me that they’d try to create character assets using slop generators. Gross behavior, a reason why I haven’t been buying any of the recent Square Enix games in fact. Their commitment to slop is too high and I wish they’d pay for it dearly.
- maturelemontree@lemmy.zipEnglish3 days
Sadly they don’t learn a hard enough lesson. They’ll still make money off of it, people will still buy it, and the company will milk the cow to the bones all the while.
- 3 days
This is why i think i won’t ever play games after 2019 ish. Or really listen to any music made after that either unless I really know the artist (I prefer most music from 70s to 90s anyway save for a select few) I cannot trust them and will not give in to slop.
Nintendo don’t use generative LLMs because of the copyright issues. Disney are even more lawyertastic than Nintendo. Hopefully a small batallion of Disney’s lawyers will show up at Squenix’s offices and tell them to cut that crap out.
- athatet@lemmy.zipEnglish3 days
Didn’t Disney buy an ai company or something to put a generator into their Disney+ app?
OK, so Disney licensed their characters to OpenAI for three years so they can be legally used in Sora-generated videos; I figure Disney gets a cut of OpenAI’s revenue proportional to how often people use Disney’s characters. This includes Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm in addition to core. The article says that some vetted Sora-generated videos will go up on Disney+ (so nothing violent or sexual). And apparently they’ll be doing something with OpenAI’s stuff on Disney+.
So it’s a contract, but they didn’t buy a company. Well there goes that hope.
- 3 days
Weren’t there suspicions that Wish (a major Disney movie that flopped hard) was largely AI generated? I don’t think Disney has too many objections to AI use…
- SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orgEnglish3 days
Kingdom Hearts has been slop from day 1. Now it’s also artificial in nature.
- BaraCoded@literature.cafeEnglish3 days
Fully agree BUT as an ARPG it had nice gameplay at the time, especially the second one. The PSP one was nice too.
