kaiserkiwi Dec 21

This really gets hilarious.
Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 loses its Indie Game Award because of placeholder assets.

»Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 launched with what some suspected to be AI-generated textures that, as it clarified to El País, were then replaced with custom assets in a swift patch five days after release.«

Not long ago this would've just been low quality placeholder textures.

Gen AI is terrible in many cases, but to make placeholder assets, so people can concentrate on the stuff they want to achieve, is nothing I would criticize.

Being against something only because you are against it, is definitely helping…

https://www.polygon.com/clair-obscur-expedition-33-indie-game-awards-goty-rescinded/

#Gaming #Expedition33 #ClairObscureExpedition33 #IndieGameAwards

Expedition 33's Indie Game Award GOTY rescinded over gen AI use

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 developer Sandfall Interactive is finding itself in hot water over its use of AI generated assets in developing the game.

Polygon.com
Show threadkaiserkiwi 

The fun part is: There is no new voting. Everyone just jumps one place up. So these that voted for Expedition 33 but wouldn't have voted for the second place have no voice anymore in this?

Kind of weird. I would feel so extremely bad, if I had the first place now because of this.

#Gaming #IndieGameAwards

Dec 21 at 1:02pmWeb
Show threadReznikDec 21

@kaiserkiwi It's also sad for the second (now first, i guess) place. Everyone knows how you got this trophy and you did nothing wrong.

It's a sad story and everyone loses.