Got a question for you peeps at Blizzard? (I doubt you’ll answer…)
Is there any plan your art and writing departments will be using AI models to generated art assets and write stories? If so? Why?
I’m sure I’ll take some heat for asking. Seems like a popular and controversial trend in the art and writing communities. Personally I find AI “art” (I hate to call it that) and writing is abysmally bad.
I’d trust ChatGPT over whoever was responsible for Shadowlands
You know how things often have labels like “Made on USA” to try to promote buying stuff from our country and often that comes with a premium because of implied craftsmanship?
I can’t wait for “Made by Humans” labels in things like art gallery’s or media credits lol.
I’m a big tech person. Been in tech my whole life. But that thing… (AI - Gasp!) that thing scares me.
They said like last month that no they don’t.
Oh, I didn’t see that. Thanks for the link.
They already fired the best quest writer in the game. I wonder why.
I could see it being used for storyboarding ideas and building the structure. Nuanced writing, not so much.
I cannot understand why they don’t just use a little AI to mass-upscale all old assets in bulk (like vanilla armor and weapons) and make them HD. As it is now we are getting that slowly, such as the AQ dresses for example.
To answer that question they will need to know two things.
For example, last year the TV networks were running a big story about how someone used “AI” to generate a picture of a government building exploding. Well it turns out just about anyone could have created that photo with a photo editor.
Another example, videos created by AI which look exactly like videos created by animation capture and CGI.
The AI hysteria is alive and well.
AI right now is like “cloud” a decade ago, “x but on the internet” about twenty years ago, “x but on a computer” thirty years ago.
And the ongoing scampocalypse that is blockchain.
There’s an immense amount of junk out there being marketed as AI-powered but isn’t.
I honestly think a lot of it already is.
AI is just another way for greedy corporations to remove jobs from hard working game designers. I refuse to pay real money for AI-generated games.
looking at their promo art for tww…i call bull.
“Write me a World of Warcraft expansion story that is horribly disconnected and makes the Horde Warchief the big bad again”
iirc Ghostcrawler added some additional context, mentioning that manually creating mountains (for example) it used to take time to create each mountain instead of automating/using AI to randomly generate mountains with a preset.
I downloaded Google Gemini today but haven’t tried it yet, (for android phones) supposedly it does all sorts of cool stuff AIs can do.
Because most assets look better with fewer than ten fingers.
Not to mention they probably don’t want the plausibility of being liable for IP theft, also, more and more smaller artists and freelance / contracted artists have been using some (dont remember which one) University’s Tech Labs (AI)Poison Nightshade program (free to the public as well).
Think of a water mark, but if your art happens to one of the millions upon millions that is used for “training” (aka stealing), it completely jacks up the image to be even more horrendous than 10fingers per hand and elbow.
Edit: Found at least an article about Nightshade that helps against AI.
What was written worse, The Jailer or last season of Game of Thrones?
It’s not the first thing to come along and do that. The John Deere tractor did the same thing just over a century ago.
Use to be men would show up to work on the farm, each one would get a horse and plow and there was work for them all day. Then the John Deere tractor came along and each one replaced seven men and seven horses. Outrageous.