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Clair Obscur won multiple awards but used generative AI art as placeholders during production.

The Indie Game Awards revoked Clair Obscur’s Debut and Game of the Year after the AI disclosure.

IGAs reassigned the awards (Blue Prince, Sorry We’re Closed) and reignited debate on gen-AI use.

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[–] percent@infosec.pub 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I suppose this is a warning to any companies who were thinking about disclosing their uses of AI for placeholders

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

If it's a placeholder, why does it even need to be generated? Make it a big square that just says "Gustave" on it until you figure out what he should look like. It's not like placeholder content is meant to be seen outside of development.

[–] creature@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

When artists arent available a rendered placeholder would give a more appropriate proof of concept than blank textures with text on them.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm not a game dev, so I can't really answer your question. My comment was only pointing out that this might discourage other studios from disclosing their use of AI during development.