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Title: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 producer confirms generative AI use in Game of the Year winner
Post by: Redaktion on December 17, 2025, 17:43:37
Some viewers were scanning trailers at The Game Awards for any signs of generative AI. However, even Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, which won nine awards, used AI tools in some capacity. A past interview with the game's producer provides more insight into how the technology benefited Sandfall.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Clair-Obscur-Expedition-33-producer-confirms-generative-AI-use-in-Game-of-the-Year-winner.1187946.0.html
Title: Re: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 producer confirms generative AI use in Game of the Year winner
Post by: Jack ross on December 17, 2025, 23:56:45
Games amazing, I couldn't give 2 shits if there's AI in it.
Title: Re: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 producer confirms generative AI use in Game of the Year winner
Post by: Graves Alucard on December 18, 2025, 00:34:05
Most games are unlikely to depend entirely on machine-generated assets in the near future.

This is a very naive and out of touch statement with how the industry is advancing with and using A.I

The bigger congromates of the industry like your EA for instance will be doing that.

I don't know how you managed to reach that conclusion of the future making zero sense with how A.I is being pushed.
Title: Re: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 producer confirms generative AI use in Game of the Year winner
Post by: Rjams on December 18, 2025, 00:48:20
There's a whole other part of this conversation where're the developers clarify that AI was only used in the concepting stage and all AI generated assets were removed and replaced with artist-created pieces.

I believe the quote was along the lines of 'we are against the use of "creative AI".
Title: Re: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 producer confirms generative AI use in Game of the Year winner
Post by: Schwaka on December 18, 2025, 19:05:12
The anti-ai people are just very loud; I dont think the majority of people actually care as long as the game is good.

One example of this I saw is AI art on the Hoyoverse app. It would get hundreds to thousands of likes, and like 20 people in the comments complaining about it being AI.

Hell, Larian is using AI to help concept artists explore ideas, but still having 100% of their art done by artists, and that handful of people are still mad.
Title: Re: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 producer confirms generative AI use in Game of the Year winner
Post by: EthicalAIIsNonsensical on December 18, 2025, 20:35:25
The problem with using AI isn't just if it's outputs exist in the final version of the game or if it's used temporarily. The problem with AI is that it's stealing the work of other people without giving them credit for their intellectual contributions. It's plagiarism.  It's intellectual theft.  It doesn't matter if gamers as a group care about the use of AI in games or not, it's unethical behaviour and society as a whole decides what is acceptable and what isn't. That's a big part of what the constitution is about.
Title: Re: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 producer confirms generative AI use in Game of the Year winner
Post by: A on December 18, 2025, 22:38:15
Quote from: EthicalAIIsNonsensical on December 18, 2025, 20:35:25The problem with using AI isn't just if it's outputs exist in the final version of the game or if it's used temporarily. The problem with AI is that it's stealing the work of other people without giving them credit for their intellectual contributions. It's plagiarism.  It's intellectual theft.  It doesn't matter if gamers as a group care about the use of AI in games or not, it's unethical behaviour and society as a whole decides what is acceptable and what isn't. That's a big part of what the constitution is about.

Not really, the biggest concern people have is losing their jobs. That is what it is really about.

It is only plagiarism if the output isn't transformative, if it is transformative than it isn't plagarism. In same sense how a human learns from others and combines them to make new stuff.

That said, regardless where one stands on AI. Using it temporarily is definitely not a problem at all. Because it is hard to argue if you are using AI for personal use only is plagiarism in any sense of the word. If using AI for personal use only is plagiarism, then you surfing the internet is plagiarism. Because your browser makes a copy of the content for your viewing for personal use. This clearly 100% falls into "Fair Use". If you don't believe it does, you owe me a million bucks for plagiarizing this content I am writing now when your browser made a copy to your pc.
Title: Re: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 producer confirms generative AI use in Game of the Year winner
Post by: M McD on December 19, 2025, 05:35:26
Let's face it AI is a thing and not going anywhere anytime soon. Using it for conceptual ideas is great. Using it in some background images I think is a good idea as well it saves time. AI definitely shouldn't be used for characters or object designs that the players interact with.
Side note, what most people don't even realize is that AI is starting to be used in algorithms now for targeted content. Still not widely adopted yet, but will the AI haters stop using YouTube or Netflix or other streaming/media platforms once they do adopt it, if they haven't already?
Get with the times people
Title: Re: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 producer confirms generative AI use in Game of the Year winner
Post by: Jit on December 21, 2025, 03:32:18
God damn, sure is a lot of dummies in the comments here who don't have a grasp on reality.
I can see that we are completely effed based on all the carelessness and ignorance
Title: Re: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 producer confirms generative AI use in Game of the Year winner
Post by: AgentJohnnyP on December 21, 2025, 16:14:33
So for the uneducated that don't know how to do things. Are you going to complain that they're using intellisense in their visual studio as well? And Intelligence has been around for decades... it gives coders a snippet of code to start working with. An idea, a starting point. For a small outfit to compete with larger companies that have millions, if not billions of dollars to spend... How are they supposed to do certain things. You fools that use AI for therapists and stupid things like that don't understand the true power of what it has to offer. It's like a Sheldon in your pocket. A brainstorming partner that can help you uncover things that you may never have uncovered on your own. It's not doing it on its own. It's helping you understand what you need to do to make your life or your work better. Sure, you can ask it to make AI videos of cats eating spaghetti. But you can also ask it to help you brainstorm ideas. Or how this code isn't quite working. How can I make it work better or more efficient. Check your heads.