The Australian edition of Kotaku is focused on taking all this fantastic news and crafting it into a tasty treat for all you Aussies and Kiwis. Whether it’s the latest info on a new game, or hot gossip on the industry’s movers, shakers and smashers, you’ll find it all here and nicely packaged at Kotaku. They’d be one in the same in every lexicon on the planet if it were humanly possible. “Emphasising how something is made by AI will make people feel it’s cheap.” “As a consumer, I hope there’s human labour behind my purchase,” a Shanghai-based engineer told Rest of World. However, it was clear that some players still associated human labour with value, especially for premium skins. While some Chinese players felt that AI produced “ digital carcasses” rather than art, others were more open minded about the technology. A freelance artist named Amber Yu told the publication that traditional illustration jobs had disappeared - clients now commission her to tune works that were created by AI for one-tenth of the pay. Xu Yingying claimed that two people, using the help of AI which could generate images in seconds, could now produce the amount of work that was formerly done by 10. Meanwhile, an illustrator blamed AI advancements for causing some of her colleagues to be laid off from an art outsourcing studio.

Players who saw the side-by-side comparisons complained that the character was too soft-spoken, and that Vyn normally had a very self-important tone that was not adequately conveyed by the AI. They promised to stream the drawing process for their future illustrations, and asked fans not to take their anger out on the developers.Īfter a voice actor in the popular otome game Tears of Themis was arrested, HoYoverse used an in-house AI system to reproduce his voice for the duration of a limited-time event. In February, a developer was forced to apologise after players discovered that parts of an Alchemy Stars posters were partially produced with AI. While Tencent has openly researched and implemented AI technology, the adoption hasn’t gone down smoothly, and one of their studios was caught in a gaming controversy earlier this year. Chinese players criticised the decision, and said that AI drawings, which depicted characters with improperly rendered faces (such as large eyes and crooked mouths) and missing limbs, appeared to be soulless. NetEase had a Naraka: Bladepoint event last month in which players used AI to generate character skins for the action-adventure battle royale game. According to Rest of World, both Chinese gaming giants and indie developers have started to adapt the cost-cutting potential of this ethically dubious technology.

Quite soulless game deportation