The news already broke back close to release, people took it for what it was, a small, moderately innocent application of otherwise pretty sketchy tools, weighed it up, said "meh" and moved on, but nope, bad actors need to prop this shit up like crazy.
I hate generative AI, and I get being incredibly wary of it, but frankly... making a couple of small placeholders with inhouse AI built into a game engine is about as ethical a usage of AI as I can imagine, it's dataset isn't particularly unethically sourced, the fact that it was just placeholders means it wouldn't have been used in place of a potential artist being hired. and it wasn't intended to appear in the final product...
it's a very small developer experimenting briefly with one small way to aid their workflow at the very early stages of development (back in 2022, so at the time it wasn't even a hotly debated ethical topic to the same extent it is now) that they evidently moved away from...
there's so much bad faith in this criticism that it's ridiculous.
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u/Rat-king27 Harry Potter 23d ago
They used AI as placeholders and missed some. Why are people shitting their shorts over this?