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Fans slam The Alters after discovering evidence of undisclosed gen AI in images, text, and translation (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (13 children)

Damn, I was looking forward to playing this. Glad I read this first

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

From the article:

Danilov posited that the mistake was either the work of a "careless translator taking shortcuts", or it was "done by someone on the dev/publisher side who couldn't be arsed sending last-minute missing lines for translation and decided to throw them in a random LLM without oversight".

Handong Ryu, who handled the Korean translation for the game, replied: "I was responsible for translating the vast majority of the Korean version of The Alters. Unfortunately, the same issue exists in the Korean version as well, which makes it more likely that the second scenario you mentioned is closer to the truth.

Sounds like this text was either added late in development or simply overlooked until after the last set of translation work had been completed, so the devs decided to let an LLM do it rather than getting billed for another batch of localisation.

Very dumb, especially as this puts them in direct violation of the Steam AI disclosure policy, but given the context I guess they figured no one would notice.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They could have used Google translate for these short last minute additions, and not a single fuck would probably notice. I hate this stupid overconfidence in AI.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

"You're not actually supposed to read that text so this is not an issue." Good job missing the point.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

That's kinda sloppy, mainly in the disclosure and translation department, but nothing that some updates won't solve.

I'm happy to support these devs with original ideas, even while they use some AI in a non-intrusive way. They have done something more important for in my book, which is following regional pricing.

It's stupid how several studios think charging my 3rd world country the same or even more than the US is a good idea. CDPR and bethesda think it's ok, but It's disgusting. I would rather support 11bit.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"like it or not, gen AI is becoming an invaluable tool for developers"..

..who wish to take a dump on their work.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It will be used as a tool in pre-production and early stages of asset creation and no one will notice afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (8 children)

You're expecting it to be used responsibly when we ourselves in general are very lacking in that department.

This here is a very good example of the actual use that will happen. A rush job to meet unrealistic deadlines. And that's what will happen as is the norm.

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[+] [email protected] -15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

Super weird take, honestly. Procedurally generated content gets no hate, despite it being janky dogshit, too.

EDIT: lol your downvotes don't make your opinion more consistent

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You must be young. proc gen used to get tons of hate in the 2010 and such era, gamers complained about devs being lazy and not being willing to actually make levels/worlds/dungeons/whatever. This complaint was of course inconsistently applied.

These days people mostly just got used to it as normal. In 10 or 20 years, I'd wager the same will be true of gen ai.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Edit to clarify: what I meant was, if you don't understand why procedural generation is acceptable, and generative AI is not, you are not qualified to have an opinion on the subject. Leaving the original text for context.

If you don't know the difference between procedural generation and generative AI, you are not qualified to have an opinion on the subject

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

LOL care to educate us on why a statistical model is unacceptable while a procedural model (also statistical 🙃) is acceptable, then? 🤔 I'll wait.

(reality: it's a minor implementation detail and has no relevance to the user)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

There's a number of reasons, not least of which being that generative AI works by processing vast amounts of prior work (without their creators' consent) to make a facsimile of it, while procedural generation only manipulates assets the developer creates. Procedural generation isn't putting artists and writers out of business. Procedural generation isn't making Idiocracy a reality, with fucking English majors unable to read Dickens without asking OpenAI to interpret the text for them. "They do similar things" doesn't mean they're equivalent. My point being, it's not inconsistent to be okay with procedural generation and not okay with generative AI.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

While your statement is objectively true, it does not pertain to the comment you replied to. Read it again, they were making a comparison. They did not claim that the two things were identical.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I feel like it does. theunknownmuncher thinks it's somehow inconsistent to be against generative AI while being ok with procedural generation, which implies that they think they're equivalent in some way. As if the reason people don't like generative AI is because it makes bad games.

Edit: throughout this discussion, my opinion has evolved somewhat. Procedural generation is fine, because it only uses things created by the developer, and it will necessarily generate a better product than a generative AI, because the developer is the one who tunes it. An AI will generate any text that might fit within the genre, with no consideration for what's canon to the work it's being inserted in.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

both are used to produce more content with less effort. There's your equivalence.

What would actually add value to the conversation is discussing why a particular criticism of one may or may not apply to the other.

I actually disagree with the original premise, and explained why in another comment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

both are used to produce more content with less effort. There's your equivalence.

Bingo.

As if the reason people don't like generative AI is because it makes bad games.

Nice, point proven. 😎 If it doesn't make games bad, then the complaints are simply invalid and bandwagoning, and developers cannot be faulted for using it. LOL

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If it doesn't make games bad, then the complaints are simply invalid and bandwagoning, and developers cannot be faulted for using it. LOL

"If slavery doesn't harm the economy, then the complaints are simply invalid and bandwagoning, and plantation owners cannot be faulted for using them. LOL"

I know Lemmings have a lot of trouble reading, so I'll get this out of the way now: no, I'm not saying that generative AI is slavery, nor am I saying they're equivalent. I'm drawing one similarity to make a point. That's called a simile. The point being, that one supposed criticism isn't valid doesn't mean that no criticisms are valid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

👀 SLAVERY??? Come on man. Outrageous.

theunknownmuncher thinks it's somehow inconsistent to be against generative AI while being ok with procedural generation, which implies that they think they're equivalent in some way.

It's genuinely wild that you wrote this and then minutes later tried to make a "comparison but totally NOT equivalency, guys" to SLAVERY. 🤦🤦🤦

EDIT: btw, not that it matters at this point, but that's not what a simile is. It is analogy, though, but a super flawed and shitty one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I like how l saw this repIy coming and accounted for it and pre-repIied to it, and you stiII Ieft it. Yeah, it would be outrageous to equate generative Al and slavery, that's why l didn't do that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, of course I did, it would be gross of me to let that slide

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

So the reason behind that was to point out that, by your logic, slavery would be excusable. That's the argument you're making. The consumer won't notice the difference, therefore it's fine for the producer to use it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

by your logic, slavery would be excusable. That's the argument you're making.

I'm sorry, we're talking about the implementation of generated content in video games. That only works if it's EQUIVALENT to slavery, it's not (which you yourself said in an attempt to have it both ways lol), so "my logic" does not apply to slavery... Dude.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Sharing one thing in common does not make two things equivalent. You're welcome to try again though

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

you demanded an equivalence. I gave you one. If you don't like it then that's a you problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When did I demand an equivalence??? This is what using ChatGPT does yo your brain, it destroys your reading comprehension

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're projecting, and being an asshole. Pause a minute and collect yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What am I projecting??? Why is it that now that I am asking you to explain things, you won't?

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago

Your previous comment proved my point, thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Love and hate are subjective opinions, so of course they're unfair.

And so are upvotes/downvotes.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

There’s more than one argument against generative AI being used in games, and they don’t all apply to proc gen content. It’s an apples to oranges comparison in most cases.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Ita because you are still putting in the work to license or produce the individual parts used in procedural generation rather than using people's work without pay or permpermission.

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