Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 producer confirms generative AI use in Game of the Year winner

[Redaktion]

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.

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[Jack ross]

Games amazing, I couldn't give 2 shits if there's AI in it.

[Graves Alucard]

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.

[Rjams]

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".

[Schwaka]

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.

[EthicalAIIsNonsensical]

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.