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[yogaflame]

This AI design are much better by a mile than those woke crap design from the west base developers and designers.

 

[Xbox 360 slim]

This AI design are much better by a mile than those woke crap design from the west

Playstation is western.

 

[yogaflame]

Playstation is western.

Correction, from there western base developers and designers.

 

[reinking]

Maybe they did, maybe they didn't but...

 

[Aenima]

Get used to it bozo. Those AI avatars are better than the skulls and lions some "artists" was pumping out as avatars that flooded the PS Store during the PS4 gen.

 

[Knightime_X]

I would actually be more offended if these were done by actual human beings, theses are just straight up looking very bad.

They don't look bad. They look like pixel art. Looks fine to me. Honestly, I'm digging the simple design.

 

[ReBurn]

I'm having a difficult time understanding why AI generated avatar images are a problem.

 

[Xbox 360 slim]

Get used to it bozo. Those AI avatars are better than the skulls and lions some "artists" was pumping out as avatars that flooded the PS Store during the PS4 gen.

The PS3 era was the worst for that. Legit stock images posted for $3.

 

[Parazels]

We need another AI to fix these AI-generated pictures!

 

[Aenima]

I'm having a difficult time understanding why AI generated avatar images are a problem.

They are not. Just ppl afraid to be replaced by AI. If you are a good and creative artist, you dont have any reasons to fear AI. But there are alot of ppl in the industry pumping out slop worse than AI slop.

 

[simpatico]

AI > most AAA developers

I don't make the rules, but this is objectively true.

 

[Generic]

AI art is art.

 

[ReyBrujo]

What offended me the most is the low energy effort. They typed "Fire Mage" and called it a day, the titles are literally the prompt.
Give it five minutes and you can get something passable IMO.

If I put this one for publication I would go in and touch up the forehead gem and manually draw a gold diadem around it.

Time to start recruiting a prompt engineer /s

 

[Lokaum D+]

Its just avatars... fuck off

 

[Sooner]

Um..... who cares?

There are people who spend all their time trying to find anything to be outraged over.

 

[Three]

So is this a new trend? Complain about companies using AI now? lmao

Yes. AI slop sucks. It is lazy and prone to artistic mistakes. but it's not like it's in a game in this case so does anybody actually care? This is just a free advent calendar of avatars. So their possible laziness is not monitised either. It's just for some free crap.

They're not even sure if AI was used, they base it purely on the cyberpunk pic having japanese characters that don't mean anything. Which is a mistake even human artists love to do with Japanese and Chinese tattoos so who actually knows...or cares.

 

[Fake]

Just sad seeing Sony doing this kinda of stuff.

 

[Begleiter]

I think "Virtual Idol" is what actually gives the game away, since it's just Sonico.

 

[Mr Moose]

Just sad seeing Sony doing this kinda of stuff.

I agree. Pixel art is shite.

 

[adamsapple]

Criminal Investigations Should Be Launched Against Sony (among others).

Spoiler

 

[Kurimao]

 

[Durin]

Eh, this is honestly the ideal use-case for AI slop images.

Just make them free marketing like people use them for youtube thumbnails. Now, if they expect me to pay for this stuff...good luck.

 

[RedC]

Sony could've just gotten me to do the Avatars with A.I.

 

[Sooner]

Just sad seeing Sony doing this kinda of stuff.

Fake outrage

 

[Danjin44]

They don't look bad. They look like pixel art. Looks fine to me. Honestly, I'm digging the simple design.

To me they look generic ass shit…..there is no style to them.

 

[begotten]

Are they really AI or just really shitty?

Do people remember the garbage PSN avatars you would see pollute the PS3 store

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Other forum wanted to cancel arc raiders for ai

Wonder if Sony is banned there now

 

[FMX]

So what? You guys whine too much.

 

[Knightime_X]

To me they look generic ass shit…..there is no style to them.

They remind me of ms dos games, and lots of those were significantly worse looking. So, meh.

 

[PSYGN]

AI still has trouble sometimes with illustrating holding things. That gun looks distorted like something from M.C. Escher.

Now if this was some first party Nintendo game I would be disappointed, but for Sony as a company to do this as some freebie extra like Kids Meal junk for the console I am not surprised nor really angry about it.

 

[Fake]

Fake outrage

Nah, AI leads to lazy.

 

[MayauMiao]

Avatar looks alright and I don't know why the "outrage".

 

[Saber]

Despite find them harmless its kinda sad they would even need AI for that. Any person could made simplistic avatars, it doesnt even require expertise or degree.

 

[Jinxed]

 

[MayauMiao]

This AI design are much better by a mile than those woke crap design from the west base developers and designers.

I'll take AI art over woke design.

 

[UniformDeliverance]

The horror. What ever shall we do.

 

[Sharius]

i use that black cat avatar from gravity rush since game launched, i don't even bother to change at this point

 

[semiconscious]

there's a level of shit that's shit no matter who or what created it. & these avatars are a perfect example. they're also a perfect example of a 'get nothing for nothing!' promotional event...

 

[Felessan]

Perhaps the biggest giveaway is the use of Japanese writing in a cyberpunk-style scene, which don't really reflect real characters at all.

Japanese writing in cyberpunk theme is canon though

 

[mdkirby]

The texture of the fingers kind of gives it away just a tiny bit, but the AI's work on the face is the more impressive part. Very realistic and not overdone.

That's a very easy fix by just running it through magnific.

 

[Mownoc]

"Accused" of giving out free crap. They're free avatars who gives a damn lol.

If they're not charging for it the only issue I'd have is if it was insultingly low quality with obvious errors, or in some way extremely poor taste. Like that AI Xbox hiring ad after laying off thousands of employees and artists.

 

[tanners]

I don't seen any issues in my opinion
They are free to give to everyone after all,there's even worse designs in PS3/PS4 era avatar store that CHARGES you for real money

 

[Aressa]

No way. You're telling me a company famous for squeezing every drop out of its customers would do that? Impossible.

 

[Aressa]

I'll take AI art over woke design.

I would too. AI would never create characters that awful on purpose.

 

[Killer8]

 

[Three]

Sony could've just gotten me to do the Avatars with A.I.

They'd get rejected because... it doesn't fit the maximum pixels size of avatars. I'd take them as backgrounds though.

No way. You're telling me a company famous for squeezing every drop out of its customers would do that? Impossible.

These are free avatars, what exactly are they squeezing out of people?

And since when were they famous for squeezing every drop out of people? They're the least squeeze out of all the three competitors. Even the only ones to have discounts. You know it's true.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

Save your outrage for something that actually matters

 

[Mownoc]

No way. You're telling me a company famous for squeezing every drop out of its customers would do that? Impossible.

How did you misread the title as Nintendo?

 

[kruis]

How many of those journos and internet critics complaining about AI art are using it to write articles, university papers, etc?

 

[MaxwellParrish]

But every time you enter the raffle you'll get a free avatar every day, which appears to feature artwork generated by AI.

While it's becoming increasingly difficult to detect AI artwork, we will say these avatars do have that kind of "look" to them, although there aren't any obvious telltale signs like extra fingers or anything like that.

Perhaps the biggest giveaway is the use of Japanese writing in a cyberpunk-style scene, which don't really reflect real characters at all.

Well, no idea if these are AI generated or not, but your "biggest giveaway" is not a giveaway at all. It just show that the artist probably doesn't speak Japanese or chinese. Are the background of the Ghibli anime of the '90 AI generated because the signs are full of words that make no sense? And here there is even less reason to actual recreate the language because instead of revocate last century European vibe, you are just fantasize on the near future : the main raison d'etre of this sign is just to look cool, not to communicate anything, so why should they look like real ideograms?