This is unacceptable at this point": Activision faces backlash over AI-generated images in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6

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Call of Duty has come under fire from its community for handing out in-game event rewards that may have been AI-generated.

This is unacceptable at this point": Activision faces backlash over AI-generated images in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 : Read more

 

[fjtorres5591]

Okay: since nobody has bothered to bring this up, exactly how many players are upset about this? Is their active player count going down due to this? Or is it a few pearl clutchers with nothing better to do than Chicken Little over every triviality that offends *them*?

Generative software tools are real.
They are useful. As in, they cut costs in some areas, add new capabilities in others.
And in a gaming industry where ballooning costs and delays are costing jobs and causing studio closures, those tools are needed to stay afloat.

Studios either adapt or get run over by Studios and publishers (Tencent) that have no problem with using every available tool.

Pick your poison.

 

[Cole Martin]

The active player count doesn't have to see a significant drop to determine if people to have strong feelings about something. I love COD. Put thousands of hours into it a year. I don't want to be rewarded with AI generated trash. It doesn't even look good. I've never been shy about spending money for bundles that I want, but if I see a bundle with AI-generated muck, I'm not buying it, no matter how much I like everything else in it.

It looks bad, and it's shameful for a trillion-dollar company to release a subpar product, regardless of how it is created. Sending out slop to save a few bucks on paying some of the best artists in the world who are already on the payroll a couple extra dollars is what it is. It's shameful.