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Clair Obscur won multiple awards but used generative AI art as placeholders during production.

The Indie Game Awards revoked Clair Obscur’s Debut and Game of the Year after the AI disclosure.

IGAs reassigned the awards (Blue Prince, Sorry We’re Closed) and reignited debate on gen-AI use.

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[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 151 points 9 months ago

People pointed out that the game did use AI-generated assets as placeholders, but then replaced them with human-created assets later.

I don't see why this is such a big deal?

[-] LovingHippieCat@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

Especially since "later" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here given that it was literally within days.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago

at that point why even use AI at all instead of some other basic filler assets?

[-] kogasa@programming.dev 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Why not? If the tools weren't available, they'd have used stock art or something super basic and crappy looking, which would've been just as good as a placeholder. But the tools were available.

In 2025 it makes sense for companies to have policies against using generative AI tools even for stuff like this because of the systemic effects of normalized use. But in 2022, it wouldn't have been a thing. Nobody would have thought twice about it. Just a neat new thing that does the job.

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