Xbox Slammed For AI-Generated Art Promoting Indie Games
Xbox Slammed For AI-Generated Art Promoting Indie Games
Microsoft quickly deleted a wintry scene promoting ID@Xbox
Fuckin' SSSLLAAmmMMMMmEeeDddd, dude!
Like a trashcan lid to the head!
How will they survive such a thorough slamming?
I can’t wait until we are on the other side of the slammed. I am sure it will be replaced by an equally annoying word choice.
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Always downvote slammed articles
@pregnenolone has been Slamming slammed articles!
SLAMMMED!
I hate this trend of saying "SLAMMED", or "HOUNDED", or "ATTACKED" etc in news articles where the stories are just "a couple of people with a dozen followers between them posted slightly negative tweets about topic xyz".
My parents were bitching about how Adele was "HAMMERED" online because she said "I am proud to be a woman" or something. Turns out it was just two complete nobodies tweeting about how that's trans exclusionary or something with 1 heart each.
Buzzibee absolutely DISMANTLING article headlines! More above!
It's just so they can still write an article even though nothing really happened
I'm looking forward to the day when someone legitimately goes ham on someone else, profanity, yelling, the whole 9 yards, and the articles are all like, "so-and-so somewhat disagrees on such-and-such".
AFAIK it comes from tabloid headlines needing less words to fit on newsprint and remember it 30 years ago (it was just a stupid sounding then). I have no idea why it's made the translation to online news in recent years
AND WELCOMED TO THE JAM!
I can't hear this without hearing the Spaceballs theme
Gosh, I pray they're not using Photoshop as well! Won't someone think of the children??
Photoshop still requires human creative input and isn't built on a foundation of theft
They have their own Bing Image Creator. Obviously they'd prefer to use their own tool instead of hiring artists. Everyone with two working brain cells saw this coming. (I'm not defending it, it was just obvious the day Bing Image Creator was launched.)
This is why we need a rule that if you incorporate your logo into AI art, your logo becomes public domain.
This is technically already legal precedence in USA, copyright requires human expression and without sufficient human creative control in ML generated works they're effectively public domain
Edit: why downvotes?
Because... why?
I'm guessing so the maintainers of the AI don't have to worry about copyright when it uses the logo somewhere unexpected. But I'm curious what OP says.
I see literally zero problems here. Did they have a contract with an artist? They didn't? Well then it sounds like they have no obligation to use a real artist.
AI art is here to stay, and companies will be using it heavily. It's ignorant to think they would choose otherwise. Why pay an artist to make an image you may not even like over the course of a few days when you could get hundreds of images to choose from in a few seconds using AI? It's 1000 times easier and more convenient.
The art and images that image AI's are based off of, are stolen. They diffuse them as a legal loop hole. That's the main issue. I want to see AI pushed forward, but not when they're scraping data and not crediting artists. The amount of data required for an image AI is crazy; we have to figure out a way of legally and respectfully requiring that data.
Text AI's are marginally better, because a lot of the data acquired was opt in. It was just people talking. There is the issue with them ripping books, though.
It’s tone deaf as fuck. From the article: “If you can’t hire an artist to do advertising, I highly doubt you’ll do it with independent developers.”
This is the only point that matters. Even if AI is here to stay, that's fine, you just don't use it when specifically highlighting the demographic most threatened by its usage. The post was just a bad business decision; they should have known how it could come across. It's their job to know that kinda stuff before hitting Post.
Why use AI to depict something they can share screenshots off?
A billion dollar company.....
They also saw a problem since they deleted it
I really don't care one way or the other. I think AI being used is an inevitability. I think it would only really be relevant if Microsoft had a policy against AI being used in games for things like asset generation for example.
gods am i glad microsoft didn't have to dip into their literal trillion dollar valuation to pay independent artists any money at all to advertise the independent developers they're so gleeful to take credit for
I'm not defending Microsoft. They're a soulless corporation releasing an ad around a holiday where a lot of people have time off and recently received gift cards and spending cash. I don't think them paying for an artist one time when they hope to use AI for a majority of their throwaway adverts really matters.
This is such a pointlessly smarmy comment.
This is such a pointlessly smarmy comment.
"Energy intensive art" lol
Just as much love as Microsoft shows the rest of Xbox
AI art is always so immediately obvious. I understand the temptation. Oh wow, I can jazz up this throw-away post that no one really cares about.
But everyone that sees that post immediately notes oh its ai art again. Because our brains are picking up on all the details. So it kind of defeats and distracts from the point.
There might be ways of encorporating ai generated images into things, but it's not gonna be by just generating an image with a prompt and running with that as your main graphic.
I guarantee you've seen AI generated images that you didn't know were AI. It's survivorship bias, you're only seeing the ones that are bad as immediately AI.
Never say never. I wouldn't be too sure whether or not it remains obvious when AI is being used, and for how long. Right now though it's definitely nothing that should be used as a final result. Really good way to get inspiration for moods and motives though
it's ironic, since AI generated always looks polished - but the identification is mostly context-based i.e. we know nobody would pay anyone for making that illustration from scratch: because it's a throw-away
illustrations will be ubiquitous but mostly shit, only the shit will be more polished
so if an illustration is highly polished but otherwise garbage, it's AI with high probability - because the craftsmanship of the generator exceeds the artistic taste and development of the user