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Ubisoft touches up AI art 'placeholder' that slipped into Anno 117, but fans are not happy it was there to begin with: 'Of all the video games, not Anno' (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Agent_Karyo@piefed.world to c/citybuilders@sh.itjust.works

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[+] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Frankly, get over it.

A lump of algebra will instantly draw whatever you describe. Or finish whatever you doodle. Or clean up two things you've lazily bodged together. No shit it's gonna get used for placeholder imagery.

If a game ships with Shutterstock logos on a texture, that's an embarrassing flub, but nobody screeches how they can't believe a developer would do this to them. There's no moral panic when a crate label still reads "Alan please add details." If the whole game is human-authored aside from one JPG they missed, then even the hater-est of AI haters are crying wolf. Modern development can obviously make excellent use of this witchcraft. These are artists, being paid to do art, and it helps them make the thing.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Frankly, get over it.

When citizens pay insane electricity rates for the AI to generate shit in a game and want the game to be created without AI and by actual working people that know how to make art.

Instead let's charge the poors in 2 ways, still charge for the game to the plebs that already paid for it. While we are at it lets add additional work for the reduced art team because they have to fix the AI crap now.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Actual people did make this game. All the art in the current version is human-authored. This was a place-hold-er. It's programmer art, except it looks good enough to accidentally ship, rather than an MS paint atrocity.

But hey, if you wanna rail against the game industry in terms of class and capital, here's your pitchfork, let's talk about unions and residuals.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 4 points 2 days ago

Their "fix" was the same image with screwed up bits patched up. You can see it in the article. Its not a "place-hold-er" or a placeholder (its one word) if they don't replace it with actual art.

[+] minorkeys@lemmy.world -21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Y'all a bunch of whiny babies.

[–] GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry that I want to be making art while AI does emails, instead of the other way around. Fuck off.

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It seems pretty normal for customers to complain when the products they paid for fall below their expectations, yeah? Am I ‘whining’ when I take my car back to the shop because they messed something up?

[+] minorkeys@lemmy.world -6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Possibly, depending on how small the issue actually is. Should all games have zero bugs? How reasonable is that?

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Should a product I pay for function as-advertised, you mean? Yes absolutely. This is the definition of reason.

For example, when a game advertises itself an an opportunity to experience a specific period of history, it is unacceptable for them to simply generate a bunch of images with low quality AI that includes modern architectural features that didn’t exist at the time. It’s also unacceptable for them, when called out about this, to simply blur over those bits and call it a day. These assets are inherent to the core product they are advertising and failing to deliver.

If a game has a handful of rare bugs that let you just get a few steps out of bounds or something, maybe forcing you to reload a save? Then no, it’s not reasonable to send the devs death threats over that, or wherever you were planning on taking this metaphor to try and prove your point

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Just more whining. AI is here for good. Get used to it.

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Nice 2022 talking point lol. Here in 2025, literally nobody is making any money off it, and the “ai” companies are now posturing for bailouts.

The only thing here for good is the embarrassment of everyone who bit the hook

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 days ago

No human artist would ever confuse second- and third-century architecture! Any child knows columns in a peristyle should've been corinthian until yeeears after Diocletian. And a parabolic arch? Outside of Dalmatia?! What's your degree in, paint by numbers?

A single image made slightly wrong and left in by accident is ruinous. Seeing a load screen with a single mistake is worse than the game crashing every five minutes. Refund. Refund!

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago

No shit. I had to stare at the AI pic, even with the bad parts circled, to find what was wrong.