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[–] 49 points 4 months ago

What really pisses me off here is that this is the butchery of an actual art piece. They had a fantastic work but they wanted to shift the characters around a little for box art and had an AI do it.

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  • [–] 26 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    We need to get a handle on this before it becomes more difficult to distinguish. Companies have demonstrated they will sneak AI assets into development without a second thought.

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  • [+] -13 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    How is this any worse than airbrushing models and Photoshopping movie posters?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    The difference is a person is paid to airbrush or Photoshop. AI analyzed an existing piece of artwork someone created, copied it, then spit out a slightly modified version and called it an original creation.

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  • [+] -6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    AI analyzed an existing piece of artwork someone created, copied it, then spit out a slightly modified version and called it an original creation.

    "AI" did none of those things. As much as you want to personify tools, a human was paid to use LLMs to generate that output. It did not magically create that out of its own free will. These are not people, and they do not act on their own.

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago

    Yep, that's slop alright.

    One big tell to me is how highlights always get slightly brighter just before hitting the outline. It's kind of a similar effect to when you turn the sharpness filter up on a TV, and it looks terrible. And yeah, there are a ton of strange noisy messy shape salad parts that are a defining characteristic of "AI" "art".

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (12 children)

    Could someone repost the image here? I cannot access it on X.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    It's some ugly slop no matter how it was made. Lot of speculation they took several screenshots or renders and asked AI to cartoonify and upscale.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Wow what the hell is going on behind Goofy?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I'm a bit torn on it tbh because it looks like how Nomura usually designs his characters.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, this actually looks similar to the early concept sketches that Nomura cooked up. Back before Disney noticed he was trying to put a chainsaw-wielding character next to Donald and Goofy, and told him to chill out.

    The original concept was that the keyblade was going to be an end-game weapon that you worked towards, while the primary weapon was going to be a chainsaw. Then Disney went “hey-… Uhh… We noticed you’re going to put a chainsaw-wielding 12 year old next to Donald and Goofy. Maybe fucking don’t do that?? Take it down like two notches.” So Nomura pivoted and just gave Sora the keyblade right at the start of the game.


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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    How many eyebrows does a guy need ffs

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    This is why i think i won't ever play games after 2019 ish. Or really listen to any music made after that either unless I really know the artist (I prefer most music from 70s to 90s anyway save for a select few) I cannot trust them and will not give in to slop.

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    Nintendo don't use generative LLMs because of the copyright issues. Disney are even more lawyertastic than Nintendo. Hopefully a small batallion of Disney's lawyers will show up at Squenix's offices and tell them to cut that crap out.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Didn’t Disney buy an ai company or something to put a generator into their Disney+ app?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    They had made a deal with OpenAI I think.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Found a source!

    OK, so Disney licensed their characters to OpenAI for three years so they can be legally used in Sora-generated videos; I figure Disney gets a cut of OpenAI's revenue proportional to how often people use Disney's characters. This includes Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm in addition to core. The article says that some vetted Sora-generated videos will go up on Disney+ (so nothing violent or sexual). And apparently they'll be doing something with OpenAI's stuff on Disney+.

    So it's a contract, but they didn't buy a company. Well there goes that hope.

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