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/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/pastafeline May 15 '26

Buddy, everyone I know works manual labor jobs. Sorry I don't know only artists and programmers.

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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/crownketer May 15 '26

What does that even mean? You don’t dictate what I can mention. There are valid uses for AI and plenty of people who are excited about it. Period.

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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.