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"Some video game players recently criticised the cover art on a new video game
for being generated with artificial intelligence (AI). Yet the cover art for
Little Droid, which also featured in the game’s launch trailer on YouTube,
was not concocted by AI. It was, the developers claim, carefully designed by a
human artist.
Surprised by the attacks on “AI slop”, the studio Stamina Zero posted a video
showing earlier versions of the artist’s handiwork. But while some accepted
this evidence, others remained sceptical.
In addition, several players felt that even if the
Little Droid cover art was
human made, it nonetheless resembled AI-generated work.
However, some art is deliberately designed to have the futuristic glossy
appearance associated with image generators like Midjourney, DALL-E, and Stable
Diffusion.
It’s becoming increasingly easy for images, videos or audio made with AI to be
deceptively passed off as authentic or human made. The twist in cases like
Little Droid is that what is human or “real” may be incorrectly perceived as
machine generated – resulting in misplaced backlash.
Such cases highlight the increasing problem of the balance of trust and
distrust in the generative AI era. In this new world, both cynicism and
gullibility about what we encounter online are potential problems – and can
lead to harm."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
