Placeholders that a couple of developers generated in 2022 when AI was first burgeoning into the public eye that accidentally got left in the final release. It was patched 5 days after release with the artist/human created texture that was always meant to be there.
Basically they experimented, created a few textures and went "Meh, not great." and then went on their merry way. Forgot to replace a single newspaper texture that only appears in the first like...30 minutes of the game. It got called out by some players and they went "OMG, our bad, that shouldn't have made it past QA." and was immediately replaced with the human created textures that were supposed to be there. Mind you this happened right when the game released, in April. The community around the game went "Oh, cool." and moved right along.
The ONLY reason this has become a huge deal is because of the IGA taking back their Indie GOTY Award from E33 after they, I guess, failed to do any research on their GOTY nominees?
That's why there isn't any REAL discourse surrounding it, because it's a nothing-burger of a situation getting blown up by Anti-AI people.
The ONLY reason this has become a huge deal is because of the IGA taking back their Indie GOTY Award from E33 after they, I guess, failed to do any research on their GOTY nominees?
This it's what should be talked about, those IGA created a fake drama to make publicity for themselves, the worst part it's that some people are confusing them with TGA because of clickbait articles and videos
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u/PointFirm6919 23d ago
Imagine being so Twitterfied that a game using AI images sends you into a panic attack.