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The Sims Competitor inZOI Sells 1 Million in a Week, Krafton Declares It a ‘Long-Term Franchise IP’ (www.ign.com)
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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Given how many features use generative AI to build user-generated content I would say mark this moment. There is a future of slop-centric Roblox stuff everywhere and this may well be where it starts.

I'm not as mad about that as most will be, but... yeah, I've mentioned a couple of times around here how weird it is that nobody is really bringing it up so far.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate it more because it's generative AI based off of user created content and their own content. I respect that more than using outside sources that got their training data from god knows where and just slap that shit in there and call it a day.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

How is it based on UGC if the game wasn't out when they implemented the GenAI? As far as I can tell they're using a whole bunch of ML-based tools built on Unreal tech for animation and model creation and what seems to be run of the mill Gen AI for textures. I could be wrong, but hey, I'll hold you to that being cool when EA or Ubisoft show up with their version of the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think you can scan real world items to import them as 3d objects, and they use AI for that ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You can enter a text prompt and they spit out a texture based on it, which sure seems to just be a good old image generation model. They do generate mesh from images, which probably has some ML involved, although it's harder to tell how much is just good old photogrammetry, and they do face and body animation from video source. I think that's all part of the Unreal Engine 5 metahuman package, which I'm pretty sure does use some machine learning. Oh, and I am pretty sure a bunch of the writing and character AI has been machine-created, be it in real time or baked offline.

Part of the problem is that people aren't super clear on what "AI" is supposed to mean, so it's hard to know what they're supposed to be angry about. The texture generation thing at least is clearly in the GenAI danger zone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, I guess don't quote me on that. That's just what everyone on the reviews was saying on Steam.

[–] ogmios 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I’ve mentioned a couple of times around here how weird it is that nobody is really bringing it up so far.

How many people are actually playing the game to find out though? I'm always strongly suspicious every time some new game explodes onto social media. Why couldn't they use AI to generate user reviews and comments also?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

There's a lot of suspiciously crap games that manage to explode to the top of the steam trending list. I've been bitten before.

This one has art that looks so generic I can't even tell if they're screenshots or promo pics unrelated to the game. It suddenly makes sense now I know it's genai. It's not trying to communicate anything to a user it's just vibes man.