AI Art is now in games

[StarsAreStuff]

I was playing High On Life last night and the bedroom of the main character is covered in AI art posters, some of which appear to have received little to no touch ups resulting in the borderline grotesque eyes/nose/fingers being present still.
What are yalls thoughts on this type of application of AI art in the game medium?

 

[Caiusto]

The gun don't look impressed.

 

[Sign My Guestbook!]

As long as it was done with the permission of artists.

who am i kidding

 

[super-famicom]

Was the art the AI trained on acquired legally and with the artists' consent? If not, then fuck it.

 

[PlanetSmasher]

This matches the level of effort Justin Roiland puts into most of his acting work, so it makes a weird degree of sense.

 

[mute]

I wish they would use it for things like improving PS1 FF backgrounds officially.

 

[ghostcrew]

I knew this was High on Life as soon as I saw the title. Recognised some tell tale signs of early era Midjourney on those movie posters straight away!

 

[Bengraven]

I mean, this is a humor game so it actually works. Come back when they try to put this in a serious game.

*waits for someone to reply with an attempt that I didn't know about.

 

[Hoot]

Yeah the gun is pretty much me
It's inevitable in a sort of way sadly, but man imagine like you could give the work to smaller artists to make posters for you, give someone a bit of a start/comission for a game.
But nah we can use the thief art blender

 

[Xyer]

Same level of effort on the PC graphical options too. Haha

 

[Dark Knight]

Maybe it's a statement on the shitty, garbled, non-specific nature of AI art generation. The fact that these posters are so obviously AI-generated makes me want to think it's trying to get players thinking about the vapid nature of the output of these AI.


... but that's probably a reach and it's more likely it's just out of laziness or for the lulz

 

[Orayn]

Fitting for this garbage to show up in what looks to be the worst game of the year to receive any significant press coverage.

 

[TronLight]

Seems the perfect application, background art that nobody really pays attention to but would be noticeable if absent.

 

[Panquequera]

Yeah the gun is pretty much me
It's inevitable in a sort of way sadly, but man imagine like you could give the work to smaller artists to make posters for you, give someone a bit of a start/comission for a game.
But nah we can use the thief art blender

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they could have even hired artists to replicate the style of fucked up AI art so the "joke" would still be intact while supporting actual artists.

 

[Foot]

As long as it was done with the permission of artists.

who am i kidding

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Yeah, since there's almost no chance of this being the case I can safely say FUUUUUUCK this game.

 

[RPGam3r]

"Fuck dem artists we would have normally paid to make posters."

 

[aerach71]

Fitting for this garbage to show up in what looks to be the worst game of the year to receive any significant press coverage.

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Babylon's fall did come out this year

 

[L Thammy]

Mega Dork-2
Super Dork 4
Mind Nerd

 

[Alek]

Seems the perfect application, background art that nobody really pays attention to but would be noticeable if absent.

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I always pay a lot of attention to things like this. The kind of representations of the in-game universes cultural artifiacts feel important to me in immersing me into a believable place.

I feel like it does make sense for Hi On Life though, as this is a weird (somewhat dystopian?) sci-fi universe and therefore it might make sense that their culture has been replaced by AI artwork.

 

[Thera]

What are yalls thoughts on this type of application of AI art in the game medium?

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I am glad you ask.
There are absolutely no difference between AI art and this :

And, like AI art, No Man's Sky can be quite ugly at times. But it can also produce amazing results sometimes.

So I am really not against it if there is still human curation.

 

[Tailzo]

How much art does an AI need to learn how to make new art? For example, I have drawn over 300 comic pages (each page is one small story or happening) of my children. Could I feed that to an AI and ask it to try to make a new page? I am on the waiting list for an art AI. I am honestly excited for the possibilities. Maybe when I grow tired of drawing a big forrest, an AI could fill in the rest of the trees?

 

[Dan Thunder]

Ignoring particular artistic styles I think that AI created artwork in games could be very useful. If you think about generic textures i.e. stone, wood, grass etc then the ability to create these kinds of graphics through AI could allow the likes of smaller devs or one man bands to punch well above their weight whilst using assets that would be pretty much unique to their title. It could also be used to revisit past titles that wouldn't normally be considered for a remaster because they're too niche or didn't see enough copies to warrant a 'proper' remaster. For example a developer of a small scale PS1 title may be able to use AI to upscale the assets to 4K and release the game in a form more suitable for the current generation.

Obviously examples like the above would be shitty if they're using it to rip off the aesthetic style of artists but I don't necessarily see it as wholly a bad thing for the industry.

 

[808s & Villainy]

I am glad you ask.
There are absolutely no difference between AI art and this :

And, like AI art, No Man's Sky can be quite ugly at times. But it can also produce amazing results sometimes.

So I am really not against it if there is still human curation.

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Procedural generation is not the same as machine learning

 

[julia crawford]

I am glad you ask.
There are absolutely no difference between AI art and this :

And, like AI art, No Man's Sky can be quite ugly at times. But it can also produce amazing results sometimes.

So I am really not against it if there is still human curation.

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Hum, there are a lot of differences really. Like a big number of them. Procedural generation is very different from deep learning models generating their own stuff.

 

[J75]

I remember the rerelease of Metal Wolf Chaos XD was the first game I noticed the textures went through AI processing upscaling, then Mass Effect and I think even Persona. Now we just having full on AI generations textures in games. I don't know, I kinda don't like this future... I'd prefer if all texture art in games was man made, handcrafted handmade, etc.

 

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Hum, there are a lot of differences really. Like a big number of them. Procedural generation is very different from deep learning models generating their own stuff.

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Like procedural generation uses assets with consent.

 

[aloner]

I am glad you ask.
There are absolutely no difference between AI art and this :

And, like AI art, No Man's Sky can be quite ugly at times. But it can also produce amazing results sometimes.

So I am really not against it if there is still human curation.

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I mean No Man's Sky procedural generation of content is not based off stolen artwork being used by game companies and rich creatives like Justin Roiland to get content for free in their commercial products

 

[Dan Thunder]

I am glad you ask.
There are absolutely no difference between AI art and this :

And, like AI art, No Man's Sky can be quite ugly at times. But it can also produce amazing results sometimes.

So I am really not against it if there is still human curation.

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The problem there is that in NMS it was the artists at Hello Games who created the base art to be used for the procedural generation and was made by them for that title.

The current issues with AI art would be more akin to someone else using pictures from NMS as a reference to create artwork for their own game that looks very similar to NMS i.e. they've used someone else's art for their own benefit without paying or acknowledging the original artists.

 

[KernelZee]

Where can I preorder the premium edition of Mind Nerd?

 

[RPGam3r]

I am glad you ask.
There are absolutely no difference between AI art and this :

And, like AI art, No Man's Sky can be quite ugly at times. But it can also produce amazing results sometimes.

So I am really not against it if there is still human curation.

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Difference one is that AI art uses uncredited work of other artists, while No Man's Sky generates off of work done by the actual dev team that made the game, who were paid and credited.

 

[Grips]

Seems like AI art is perfect for this kind of stuff?

 

[BranCrackr]

Ah yes, who can forget that animated childhood classic Toy Glory.

I still remember the nightmares.

 

[Orayn]

Babylon's fall did come out this year

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For this specific comparison, trying to do something potentially cool (character action GaaS) and failing is less bad than trying to do something horrible (epic Reddit bacon assault on the senses that only the most depraved Rick and Morty fan could enjoy) and succeeding.

 

[Caiusto]

Fitting for this garbage to show up in what looks to be the worst game of the year to receive any significant press coverage.

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Damn, who hurt your feelings? Don't worry, I can guarantee you there were many games worse than this, which is not even a bad game to begin with.

 

[Thera]

Procedural generation is not the same as machine learning

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Hum, there are a lot of differences really. Like a big number of them. Procedural generation is very different from deep learning models generating their own stuff.

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There are a lot of differences, but not that much really in the end.

I mean No Man's Sky procedural generation of content is not based off stolen artwork being used by game companies and rich creatives like Justin Roiland to get content for free in their commercial products

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The problem there is that in NMS it was the artists at Hello Games who created the base art to be used for the procedural generation and was made by them for that title.

The current issues with AI art would be more akin to someone else using pictures from NMS as a reference to create artwork for their own game that looks very similar to NMS i.e. they've used someone else's art for their own benefit without paying or acknowledging the original artists.

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Difference one is that AI art uses uncredited work of other artists, while No Man's Sky generates off of work done by the actual dev team that made the game, who were paid and credited.

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I mean.. Uncredited work of other artists is the life of most others artists and a very big thing in video game.
You are heavily influence by the work of others and the fact you are crediting them or not doesn't change the fact you "stole" their work to do your own.

The discussion can be very interesting but English isn't my native language so it's quite difficult to have it.

 

[5taquitos]

I really hope Mythic Quest has an arc with Phil and AI art

 

[Helix]

blegh

 

[Dice]

Pretty sure Nintendo used it recently to highlight their 'anime games' store highlight too. (the longer you look at it the crazier looking it is)

I think sorta "easy assets" like in-game posters and quick ads were easily on the chop block for human art.

 

[N64Controller]

I am glad you ask.
There are absolutely no difference between AI art and this :

And, like AI art, No Man's Sky can be quite ugly at times. But it can also produce amazing results sometimes.

So I am really not against it if there is still human curation.

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Apple, meet Orange.

 

[Liam Allen-Miller]

I think the issue is just what the AI used was trained on. If there'a no stolen work there then I don't see anything wrong with this, and it's cute how they turned them into movie posters. It really works with what they were going for.

That being said, I severely doubt that the AI was trained on only datasets they're allowed to use. Would love to be wrong on this, but I'm assuming these are all generated with stolen art.

 

[Sign My Guestbook!]

There are a lot of differences, but not that much really in the end.



I mean.. Uncredited work of other artists is the life of most others artists and a very big thing in video game.

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What... is even your understanding of video game teams and the way people work together?

Go talk to human beings, my man. Touch life. Find out we don't spend all our time stealing from each other.

 

[Crossing Eden]

Fitting for this garbage to show up in what looks to be the worst game of the year to receive any significant press coverage.

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Did this game kick your dog?

 

[take_marsh]

As long as the art generation creates enough of a transformative work, I couldn't give a damn.

The art made by human hands will almost always be a superior effort though. In the end: fuck capitalism.

 

[Finaika]

The gun don't look impressed.

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lol

 

[Dice]

You are heavily influence by the work of others and the fact you are crediting them or not doesn't change the fact you "stole" their work to do your own.

The discussion can be very interesting but English isn't my native language so it's quite difficult to have it.

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Stop this. Nearly all artists, inspired or not, DO NOT have the same art style. Musicians are influenced by other's musicians work ALL the time but that never seems to get brought up.
What do you want artists to do? Only reference real-life photos? You develop your style by sometimes practicing from those who inspire you. It's not at all "stealing their work". O_o

Highly beneficial for low budget teams. Morally questionable.

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Sadly this. I don't blame a dev team not wanting to wait for an artist to draw up 10 shitty posters for a kid's bedroom (or whatever is happening in these screenshots).

 

[PhaZe 5]

Highly beneficial for low budget teams. Morally questionable.

 

[Deleted member 24052]

Thanks, I hate it.

Already wasn't going to play it I guess. But that's so shitty. Already exhausted and annoyed by AI and it's only just getting started.

As long as it was done with the permission of artists.

who am i kidding

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Right lol. There's no way.

 

[Sign My Guestbook!]

Stop this. Nearly all artists, inspired or not, DO NOT have the same art style. Musicians are influenced by other's musicians work ALL the time but that never seems to get brought up.

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Right, because musicians have their own sentience, their own artistic soul, their own perspective. Humans always learn from each other and apply what they learn to their own lives. There's a reason why we have very specific laws on copying and plagiarism because most human art isn't.

AI is not even remotely sentient. Not yet. It's a tool of those who create it and obfuscate their responsibility in its use. It doesn't have life. There is no perspective.

All this is future law and the future isn't getting here soon enough.

 

[Ciao]

If you're an artist or have even a minimum amount if respect for artists, you boycott the game. Fuck that shit, and people who enable that art theft scam on a global level.

 

[Amibguous Cad]