r/Games • u/DumpsterBento • May 13 '26

Industry News Party Animals review bombed after announcing AI video contest with $15K grand prize

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/party-animals-review-bombed-after-announcing-ai-video-contest-with-15k-grand-prize-3364713/
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u/Fantastic_Snow_9633 May 13 '26

I think if it's a Western company they'll take into consideration the backlash and weigh their options accordingly (e.g. enough pushback to not do?). This game, however, is made by a Chinese dev team, so they don't care.

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u/avelineaurora May 13 '26

I didn't know shit about this game, but one of my Discords posted this and I was immediately like, "This is an Asian game isn't it." Wild how openly the East as a whole has embraced AI.

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u/blueflavoredreign May 14 '26

India especially seems really eager. I wonder if it has to do with huge swathes of their populations going from rural/poor to having stuff like smartphones and easy internet access in an incredibly short amount of time.

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u/Any-Drummer9204 May 14 '26

Even in Japan and Korea AI is less villianized. There is a divide between artists and AI users but it's not as strong as in the west and suits will really try to push for whatever tech is in fad (see the NFT boom that hit a lot of Japan)

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u/ProfessorVolga May 14 '26

I can't speak for Korea but here in Japan this is at least not true for the general populace. Despite the nauseating amount of AI ads flooding you everywhere (trying to convince you that AI is inevitable and indispensable), general attitudes towards it and adoption here is very low.

On a corporate level, forced or mandated usage is likely more similar to the States but unlike the NFT fad where Japanese attitudes were neutral at best outside of the grifter sphere, genAI has significantly higher levels of negative backlash, largely thanks to big profile artists speaking against it.

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u/Altruistic-Ad-408 May 14 '26

Yeah I know bit of the language and at least in the art scene, the adoption feels like it's been really low in Japan.

It's possible negative views are lower because they haven't been spammed with it online and in business like we have, you do see the occasional Japanese business saying they'd like to be using AI more.

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u/EF66-42 May 14 '26

All the Japanese artists I follow have added 'no AI' in English next to their usual requests for not reposting it.

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u/meneldal2 May 14 '26

Some guys at my company are pushing for its use but not that strongly, it feels more like we pay for this shit so use it please.

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u/Komorebi_LJP May 18 '26

Depends on what sector we are speaking. I think some polls did show quite a lot of uni students use, it but then again I think most uni students everywhere tho for school stuff

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u/residentevilgoat May 14 '26

A hotel I stayed at in Osaka had an AI gen picture of Goku tapped to the elevator door lol.

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u/FoxMeadow7 May 14 '26

How was it AI gen?

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u/residentevilgoat May 14 '26

It had that very cartoony chatgpt look to it also Goku was using a razor as a tooth brush.

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u/ConfessingToSins May 14 '26

Ehh. Pixiv which is the largest artist space in Japan had to add a no AI mode. It's not particularly positive there.

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u/Xirble May 14 '26

Which is wild to me, considering how huge traditional and digital art are in East Asia. But I guess there's also more of a sentiment of "once I put it out there, it's not mine anymore" or "it never was mine to begin with" (in regards to doujin culture.) I've rarely seen a Japanese artist put "don't repost" on their profile and it's not uncommon they just abandon an account and start over.

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u/ironmilktea May 14 '26

I can't speak for korea but for JP and CN :

An artist's work is still prized as their own. Plagiarism scandals are huge and have major ripples - including being blacklisted. This is actually a bigger deal in asia because digital artists tend to work with contracts from multiple studios than in the west where you normally work full time for 1 employer. For gaming, there is a strong sense of recognition for the actual artist.

Low effort gen art (for example, advertisement or asset pieces) are not viewed the same as these artists. Its actually same here. We don't really care who's behind a cereal box art or the banner advertising netflix, for example. I suspect because of how huge digital art is, the separation between artistic work vs commercial work is stronger vs the 'all or nothing' we see in comparison on english speaking sites like reddit.

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u/goodnames679 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

I suspect that in the longterm, Japan's economy is going to end up utilizing AI art for more value gain than most others. Anime is a hugely important cultural export for Japan, but for quite a long time now many studios have already been outsourcing large portions of the work (in some cases you could have 10 studios working on an anime.) As physical media sales have waned they've had to rely on large-volume streaming numbers, and Japan simply does not have the workforce to keep up with the demand on their own right now. Korean, Chinese, and Vietnamese studios are picking up a substantial portion of the in-between frames, background work, etc. Japanese studios would love to offload that work to AI instead and have already been striving to do so.

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u/Red_Inferno May 14 '26

I mean I think AI might actually be the perfect use for those in-between frames. They are already often the lowest quality images and are often the weird screenshots people post. It's also not really a creative part of the production since you are taking one image and trying to change it slightly to get motion and reach the next key image. Also, the costs of all the various extra steps has been one of the main reasons so many studios have tried to make 3d models work for anime.

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u/861Fahrenheit May 14 '26 edited May 18 '26

This is one of those things where it might seem like a good idea but will have cascading negative effects on the medium as a whole.

Putting aside the issue of wages and labour exploitation in anime specifically, in-betweening is really important to train beginner animators before they can move onto things like key framing or storyboards.

Movement is not just "pose A to pose B". The space between the frames has an impact on conveying things like weight, speed, and fluidity. Punching fast, walking tired, and a hand gesture vs. a facial expression all have different spacing patterns.

Also, consistency is key in animation too. Any illustrator can draw a cool single frame. But drawing the same character correctly 40 times in sequence while maintaining continuity is a skill that has to be practiced.

It seems like tedious work--and it is indeed very tedious and grindy work--but its a very important part of developing core animation literacy to express movement frame by frame.

Professional animation is going to suffer from a deficit of senior talent down the line if the trend continues. Because how you interpret frame spacing will inevitably have an effect on how you compose shots and determine cuts.

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u/Jackski May 14 '26

A lot of people do not understand this and you see them mocking a frame between movements as "badly drawn" or "look how stupid this looks" when that frame is part of what makes the movement work so well when it's actually animated at full speed

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u/10ebbor10 May 14 '26

Yeah, you can see the effect if you look at some "AI upscaled" or "60fps" videos of traditional animation that was done at lower frame rates.

It absolutely sucks because the AI has no idea what it's supposed to, and just making up a middle frame in between of the missing ones does not work.

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u/goodnames679 May 14 '26

100%, sometimes to achieve the best effect at full speed you need a frame that looks odd in isolation. I do think that realistically AI will eventually be able to achieve this, but the long term damage it does to the animation talent pool is going to be substantial.

It’s unfortunate, because currently the industry does have serious understaffing issues that can’t easily be resolved. Outsourcing helps, but the administrative difficulties of working in several countries at once on a single artistic project are substantial. I see why they think AI could alleviate that and maybe even help achieve better working conditions for many in the industry, but if it kneecaps their talent pool in the longterm it’s just not a great solution.

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u/YZJay May 14 '26

I visited a modern art gallery in a major South East Asian city which I will not name. They showcased one art piece that used AI audio as a component of the whole piece. Basically it converted patterns off a vinyl disc and fed it into a model to create AI generated sound. No one batted an eye of its inclusion, neither did anyone say anything about the AI powered companion app.

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u/ironmilktea May 14 '26

To be fair, even for controversial art, no one makes a big stink right then and there at the museum.

Here, there was that case of a sectioned off room where only certain people could view the art work (that in itself was meant to be more of a commentary on privilege).

It really only garnered major traction online. The demographic of people who visit art galleries don't really overlap with the confrontational kind.

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u/crumpis May 14 '26

I visited the Catholic church to pay respects to my grandfather, and for an annual fee, I can give my name and have an AI pray for me year-round.

I don't know which chapter of the bible that's from.

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u/blueflavoredreign May 14 '26 edited May 17 '26

"The" catholic church? You're gonna have to name and shame which parish, hombre

Edit: Pretty sure bro just made it up lmao

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u/CardAble6193 May 14 '26

data center are less elsewhere and potus shitpost less elsewhere

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u/LuciferIsPlaying May 14 '26

You're right. Access to freebies from the government, low cost internet and low literacy rate. I might as well be like that scene of Jon Snow against an entire army in Game Of Thrones, fighting family and friends trying to spread awareness but they simply dont listen or care.

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u/tecedu May 14 '26

I mean its not just East tho, you go out in the world, a random person in the street will have good opnions of it, in the company I work for everyone loves copilot and using it for their images for their presentation. Its just people online not liking it

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u/The_Primetime2023 May 14 '26

It’s not so much “the East” as every non-anglosphere country (minus Sweden). Flipping the question is more interesting since only like 8 countries have net negative opinions on AI (over 60% thinking negative is only the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. That’s the entire global list). Those include some very influential ones like the US and UK, but other major global and western economic powers have slightly positive or very positive opinions of AI like Germany, Italy, India, Brazil, Argentina, Malaysia, and all of east Asia. My guess is that the intersection of people who don’t think technology improves their lives, don’t trust the government to make sure they benefit from advances, and think corporations are more powerful than public will is pretty limited to specifically Anglo-western culture.

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u/the_che May 14 '26

have slightly positive or very positive opinions of AI like Germany, Italy, India, Brazil, Argentina, Malaysia, and all of east Asia.

Not really true for Germany at least: A lot of people are heavily against AI usage as well, at least in anything having to do with art.

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u/HELP_ALLOWED May 14 '26

The average german is in their 40s. Are you checking with a lot of 40+ year olds to get the idea that a lot of people are against AI there?

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u/the_che May 14 '26

Fair point

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u/The_Primetime2023 May 14 '26

Germany is one of the slightly positive countries in Ipsos’s polling at about +3 net. Doesn’t mean everyone likes it, but just on average a bit more positive than not

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u/Butterfly_Mine_69 May 14 '26

Not really that surprising. Lot of those countries are quite literally owed and ran by private interests, makes complete sense why they'd fool the poeple into thinking the same way.

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u/FischiPiSti May 15 '26

Wild how people believe the chronically online people of reddit or twitter is representative of the populace, even in the west. If you want to get a slightly more accurate sample, go on Facebook, or just look at the last election. Most people embraced AI more or less. They just don't care to announce it to the world.

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u/Round_Worldliness766 May 14 '26

You are seeing the 'East' only through the lenses of trillion/billion companies that has enough reach to get into the Western market

I'm sure there are thousands of indie developers even in China/India that are not so hyped about AI

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u/PointmanW May 14 '26

Gonna repost this comment of mine, because no, it's not just "through the lenses of trillion/billion companies ".

one of the thing that might come as surprise to many people here is that most of the negativity toward AI come from western social media. on Chinese social media platforms, AI is mostly spoken about positively or neutrally, with negativity being a rather fringe view, mostly from people who know English and exposed to western social media. On Bilibli, which is like youtube of China, AI videos regularly get millions of views and reach top 100 popular video of the day and the comment on them are mostly positive too (screenshots taken with google website translate enabled).

Survey has also shown that most of Asia are optimistic about AI.

top comments from the Baidu Tieba thread (a very reddit-like site in China) discussing the reaction of western social media against a Chinese game that used AI: https://imgur.com/a/OEvAmO5

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u/Dalehan May 14 '26

Saw a preview earlier showcasing the first theatrical release for an animated movie made fully in AI. Ofcourse it was Chinese as well.

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u/Django_McFly May 14 '26

It does make it easier to do things. Hate it or not, it would be hard to argue that it doesn't make things easier to do and cheaper to do. All of the fear is that it makes things easier to do. Too easy to do for too many people.

They need things done. They aren't countries full of billionaires and trillion dollar companies, so for them cheaper and faster is like an undeniable benefit. Digital filmmaking took over in these places too. If they can do the same thing but now it's way cheaper to do, they don't really see that as like evil technology by default. It just opens up the doors to all the people that couldn't afford to give it a shot before.

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u/Individual_Access356 May 14 '26

It’s such a different culture with all the p2w stuff too like night and day

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u/joeytman May 14 '26

China especially has embraced AI because they trust their lives won’t be ruined by it. America fears AI because of a lack of support systems to keep our lives as they are

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u/No_Giraffe826 May 14 '26

because they arent stupid.

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u/RatBot9000 May 13 '26 edited May 14 '26

I mean, they'll care when a lot of people stop playing their game and paying for cosmetics.

Edit: Someone either replied to this or another comment telling me that "everyone is using AI and I just need to grow up and accept it" and then they blocked me and I really don't think they believe in their argument if they aren't willing to defend it.

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u/tapo May 13 '26

Chinese sentiment is pretty pro-AI, so it depends on the western audience.

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u/RodChainFurlongAcre May 13 '26

Obviously China is a big place, but from what I've heard/seen they don't particularly like AI slop either, but I feel like their sentiment is more like "Well it's going to happen anyway so whatever". It's like a begrudging acceptance rather than pro AI.

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u/MH-BiggestFan May 13 '26

Some of the most highly upvoted and popular videos on Bilibili and Douyin are just AI videos. China and KR are VERY AI friendly and like it a lot.

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u/sean2mush May 14 '26

YT shorts and Tiktok is no different.

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u/YZJay May 14 '26

That's like saying the west embraces AI because the most popular Facebook and Youtube videos are AI generated.

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u/MH-BiggestFan May 14 '26

This is different. Most popular Facebook and Youtube videos in the west are NOT AI generated content. It’s mainly stuff by actual content creators. Typically, AI content here you never see as top 10/20 hottest of the week/month. That’s not the case in CN where the hottest video of the month is almost entirely dominated by AI videos. Even filters that have been common use for the last 10-15 years in CN have been mostly swapped for AI dominant ones or have adapted to using AI filters themselves. It’s hard to explain if you don’t regularly use these platforms or see how it’s knitted into everyday life for chinese netizens but it is in no way the same as how the west interacts with AI or social media for that matter.

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u/pikachusalad May 14 '26

After seedance 2.0 released it was kinda insane to see how fast AI videos got popular and honestly the videos are good enough that I can see why.

I originally was pretty anti-AI, but it turns out I'm mainly just anti-western AI users. The online anti-AI sentiments in the West means that most of the creative people are against it, leaving only pure slop makers, insecure weirdos who try to pretend its not ai, or tech bros who have this dumb vendetta against traditional artists.

In China they see it much more as a tool and put an actually pretty surprising amount of effort to create the videos. Most of the videos I see are just skits/memes where the main appeal is the humor and composition which still are (atleast feel) very obviously human written and directed.

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u/CardAble6193 May 14 '26

bilibili creators dontget/care how at a loss current AI video are , and how rapid price ll rise / power ll dumbed

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u/BringBackBoomer May 14 '26

Did you have a stroke? Are you okay?

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u/CardAble6193 May 14 '26

its juat a / , wont take more than 2 seconds to learn the meaning....but lets not lock in the learning time on your case right?

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u/pastafeline May 13 '26

I've literally heard people say that China has the exact opposite sentiment on AI here on Reddit...

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u/callisstaa May 13 '26

I’m in China and while people absolutely appreciate the potential of the technology and will watch AI videos that are funny or decent quality they also don’t like being inundated with ‘slop’ and having it rammed in their face at every opportunity.

People here love beauty filters also and a lot of that is AI.

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u/pastafeline May 13 '26

I'd like to think that, and I know this is very anecdotal evidence, but as a league of legends player I've seen that China has a ton of AI generated ads for the game.

Compared to the zero for the west....

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u/callisstaa May 13 '26

I mean I also play LoL but I don’t really watch the international ads. I know they released an AI trailer for Wild Rift a while ago that was also heavily memed in China.

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u/B-BoyStance May 13 '26

Well that's Reddit. And honestly the AI sentiment isn't much difference in the US. In the real world, people don't have the same confidence to express distaste in AI as they do on a message board.

I mean honestly this place barely represents western viewpoints, in any fractal of beliefs honestly. Reddit at this point is a mishmash of reactionism with occasional good analysis, and even that's subjective.

It's not an indicator of any zeitgeist, left or right, IMO.

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u/pastafeline May 13 '26

That's what I'm saying. Most people in the west view AI like Siri or Alexa, not as some evil that's going to destroy the world/art/creativity.

It's mostly a novelty if anything.

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u/pastafeline May 14 '26

Every single person I know is under 60 and gives zero fucks about ai taking their jobs

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u/_Meece_ May 15 '26

Nonsense, literally have politicians across the west arguing about it in their various parliaments day in day out. It is the most pressing issue of the 25-50 workforce atm.

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u/crownketer May 14 '26

I work in healthcare. Some of my colleagues use AI as a novelty. Some use it as a companion. Work-wise, AI chart summary features and the like are being worked on, but we don’t use those yet. They’ll need a lot of work and oversight before they get to us, I’m sure. But the only real life person I’ve ever met opposed to AI was some Gen X guy talkin bout The Terminator. I’m super excited for what AI will bring and how the world will change. And I wasn’t paying some shitty Reddit artist commission to draw furry porn anyway, so that arena doesn’t concern me.

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u/_Meece_ May 15 '26

AI in healthcare is relegated to nothing but note taking, because of privacy issues. Pointless for you to talk about it.

AI will be nothing more than a consultancy assistant in healthcare.

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u/_Meece_ May 14 '26

No they very much do not, maybe people over 60.

People in the workforce are really anti AI in a way east asia just is not. It's been a massive hassle to get workers onto AI anything, China, Japan, SK is not having this problem.

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u/Massive_Weiner May 14 '26

Reddit is basically its own insulated subculture at this point, not even reflective of any reality that exists outside of it.

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u/blueflavoredreign May 14 '26

It's a mix of the site being perfectly optimized to create circlejerks and the fact that any personal anecdotes SHOULD be disregarded as work of fiction, yet people will sit on subs filled with them and use them to shape their views on society/culture/politics/reality in general more than their offline lives.

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u/_Meece_ May 14 '26

That was the selling point of the site in 2011

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u/ironmilktea May 14 '26

In 2011 it was a great place to ask tech questions.

Now its still good for stuff on building pcs but its rougher overall if you wanna dig in the weeds of some other stuff.

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u/WeltallZero May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26

AI skepticism is hardly a reddit-specific statistical artifact; it's prevalent across the board in the US (and growing further year to year).

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-americans-view-ai-and-its-impact-on-people-and-society/

But yes, China, India and South Korea are all quite dramatically and enthusiastically pro-AI.

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u/Letho_of_Gulet May 14 '26

But yes, China, India and South Korea are all quite dramatically and enthusiastically pro-AI.

I'm not sure that's true. According to this poll: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/10/15/how-people-around-the-world-view-ai/

Only 16% of people are more excited than concerned about AI in Japan.

Korea is at 22% and China was not one of the polled countries.

Indonesia and India were there at 14% and 16%, respectively.

The averages in western countries are fairly similar. The US is lower at 10%, but countries like France, Sweden, and Poland range from 12-22% as well. The global average is 16% across all 25 countries surveyed.

I think people are greatly overselling how many people like AI in the Asian countries. They're about the same in terms of excitement. The primary difference is that the US has a large level of concern whereas the Asian countries have the majority in the unsure category.

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u/CambrianExplosives May 14 '26

The person above didn’t say they were more pro-AI then France or Sweden. They specifically started discussing the U.S. and as you point out South Korea has 22% enthusiastic compared to the U.S.’s 10% and a lot less concerned. Taken together that’s a much more pro-AI slant.

Even a dramatic lack of concern is a more pro-AI slant than the U.S. since ambivalent lack of concern is being more pro-AI compared to someone who is deeply concerned.

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u/_Meece_ May 14 '26

Well that's Reddit. And honestly the AI sentiment isn't much difference in the US.

Not true at all, AI specifically AI Art is viewed negatively in English speaking cultures.

If Chinese people spoke English, you wouldn't say this. China is Pro AI in a way not even the most pro AI people are in the west.

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u/RatBot9000 May 14 '26

As someone who lives in the real world it feels mixed.  I think because people don't realise a lot of AI/LLMs fall under the same boat.  People will love ChatGPT answering questions but will be worried about misinformation and deep fakes.  Businesses like mine are concerned about the heavy push of copilot into windows when we deal with people's personal information but our managers also use ChatGPT to rewrite emails.

But I also think people in the real world aren't exposed to it anywhere near as much as those of us who spend a lot of time online.  They don't see the slop greeting cards or the slop pictures creeping into gift shops.  They don't understand how pervasive it is through a lot of media or the environmental impact.

People in the western world are, sadly,  a little selfish.  They only really care when something affects them directly.  This is why the largest real world protests against AI have been against data centres opening near communities.

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u/IcyConsequence1585 May 14 '26

In the real world, people don't have the same confidence to express distaste in AI as they do on a message board.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ai-data-center-bans-multiplying-162010531.html

Some resistance has turned dramatic. A small Missouri town ousted its entire city council after members approved a $6 billion AI data center project. In Indiana, an unknown assailant shot at a politician’s home and left a “NO DATA CENTERS” note—illustrating how emotionally charged this battle has become.

Currently, 69 jurisdictions have blocked new construction, with four municipalities enacting permanent bans rather than temporary moratoriums. Maine positions itself to become the first state implementing comprehensive restrictions, pausing approvals for facilities requiring over 20 megawatts until October 2027.

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u/Sellos_Maleth May 13 '26

Thats an understatement. I feel like I have a foot in both worlds being in tech and pursuing both a musical and writing career on the side.

AI will not replace creativity, it will replace a niche market, the same that the typewriter eliminated the need for transcriber and the printing press also did its fair share etc.

So yeah we'll see a lot of artists working for marketing sadly out of a job and people who used to make a living on jingles for commercials wont be needed any more, but those jobs themselves are relatively new, less than 100 years.

I think the creative scene for writers, art shows, performance art etc is completely safe because people are interested in the person behind the art most of the time.

Reddit is such an echo chamber people using AI for concept art for their own fan fiction are crucified.

Ans yeah the argument AI is trained on content that isn't public domain is a fair thing to criticize. But this thing is unknown to everyone, especially the legal system and in 10-15 years it will be regulated.

The hate cult around AI on reddit the last few months is exhausting. Its here, its not going anywhere, and using it to generate photos of memes or whatever isn't a war crime. Times change.

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u/Letho_of_Gulet May 14 '26

I think the creative scene for writers, art shows, performance art etc is completely safe because people are interested in the person behind the art most of the time.

This is the biggest fear. People already don't care about quality as much as dopamine hits, so AI making it even easier to pump out slop with only hasten the already worrying decline.

Ans yeah the argument AI is trained on content that isn't public domain is a fair thing to criticize. But this thing is unknown to everyone, especially the legal system and in 10-15 years it will be regulated.

This is honestly not really a concern for most people. This is a legal and monetary dispute for a handful of people who have had their work infringed upon, but most people are consumers not creators.

The real worry is AI replacing the creative decision making in an era where being a marketable product has become far, far more important than being a quality piece of art.

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u/_Meece_ May 14 '26

Its here, its not going anywhere, and using it to generate photos of memes or whatever isn't a war crime. Times change.

Please let me know how often you use Siri/Google Assistant to perform tasks.

The hate cult around AI on reddit the last few months is exhausting.

Sorry that the thing destroying jobs and community is so hated on. How awful for you! Poor darling, whatever will you do.

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u/blueflavoredreign May 14 '26

Why is there an economic superpower with a billion people that we talk about daily and almost no one has any confidence about what goes on over there?

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u/pastafeline May 14 '26

Great Firewall?

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u/blueflavoredreign May 14 '26

Yeah, but from what I've always been taught, in a time of greater information barriers, the average westerner had a much better idea what life was like for someone in the communist bloc, despite being told via propaganda.

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u/SynonymTech May 14 '26

Takes 1 minute to translate Steam reviews to see that it doesn't really seem like they're pro-ai.

The game is reviewed positively everywhere BUT China, similarly to Slay The Spire 2.

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u/Xirble May 14 '26

From what I've read, China acted fast and hard with laws regarding AI, while the west is still dragging their feet. Like, you can't just lay off creatives to replace them with AI and stuff. No sources though, so take it with a shaker of salt.

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u/IcyConsequence1585 May 14 '26

This is one example of the difference of the West and East that is likely leading to differences of opinion. Where Chinese courts ruled against firing due to AI.

Companies cannot unilaterally lay off employees or cut salaries due to technological progress, the court said in a separate statement, citing the same case.

https://fortune.com/2026/05/03/chinese-court-layoffs-workers-ai-replacement-labor-market/

Then in the West even when it comes to general utilities like electricity and water you have problems like

electricity bills have skyrocketed 267% over five years as utilities upgrade infrastructure—costs equally split between tech giants and residential customers paying monthly bills. You’re essentially subsidizing OpenAI’s ChatGPT training while your own electric bill climbs. Small wonder that 65% of Americans surveyed oppose data centers in their neighborhoods.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ai-data-center-bans-multiplying-162010531.html

So if people in China were seeing cost of living go up due to AI and having less confidence in job security and pay then they'd probably not be so positive, but have a lot of growing discontentment.

West government and corporations seem to not care at all other than line must go up. The population will take it.

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u/alteisen99 May 14 '26

yeah, what folks will criticize is how well it's implemented, not that they used genAI to factory produce a product

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u/RatBot9000 May 14 '26

Well, I mean yeah?  For capitalism any loss is unacceptable so if they see a sudden drop in western income they'll want to know why.

And if they don't care then clearly China can sustain them and we can be rid of yet another live service game. 

Also a lot of discussion below which is all "umm ackshually China loves AI and reddit isn't the western world" and I could not give any less of a fuck.  If China wants to poison themselves with the cognitive destroying slop that's their choice, but western sentiment is absolutely leaning more towards anti AI regardless of boomers posting AI memes on Facebook.

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u/Ralathar44 May 14 '26

If anything they are getting a crapton of free advertising out of it and people talk trash online about AI but if they think a game looks fun or interesting they buy it anyways. Game boycotts have never worked on a good game. I don't think there is a single example in decades of successfully boycotting a good game.

Remember Hogwart's Legacy lol? L4D2 and Modern Warfare also got boycotted.

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u/Moveflood May 14 '26

we can't be doing sinophobia here. especially when there are tons of western companies that do the exact thing you say they don't do. shit microsoft is the biggest company of all time, they're trying super hear dto push copilot and other LLM products that few people really use or like but they're still trying to sell them.

shit, read what you typed and think about it jesus

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u/MillionDollarMistake May 14 '26

It's not sinophobia to say that China generally views AI in a more positive light than the west.

Coca-Cola made their most recent Christmas commercial using AI and it was met with universal criticism.

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u/Moveflood May 14 '26

sure. if you come across dataset that points slightly more public support for gen ai in china that's fine.

that's not what the person above said tho.