What 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.
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”.
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 many eyebrows does a guy need ffs
Could someone repost the image here? I cannot access it on X.
I’m a bit torn on it tbh because it looks like how Nomura usually designs his characters.
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.
Oh I didn’t even realize I couldn’t see it
Kingdom Hearts has been slop from day 1. Now it’s also artificial in nature.
Fully agree BUT as an ARPG it had nice gameplay at the time, especially the second one. The PSP one was nice too.
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.
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.
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.
Didn’t Disney buy an ai company or something to put a generator into their Disney+ app?
They had made a deal with OpenAI I think.
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.
Didn’t Sora shut down in April? Haw-haw!
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.
No surprise after the 3rd quality.
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