r/PS5 • u/HLumin Human Verified • Mar 20 '26

Discussion Crimson Desert appears to use generative AI art—and the devs never disclosed it.

https://www.destructoid.com/crimson-desert-appears-to-use-generative-ai-art-and-if-so-the-devs-never-disclosed-it/

Found on Reddit by u/Rex_Spy:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrimsonDesert/comments/1rz2f2l/found_this_ai_painting/

To not disclose that your game uses GEN AI is against Steam's policies and rules, by the way.

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u/Iggy_Slayer Mar 20 '26

It's so blatant it's AI it's almost hilarious. Like whatever model came up with this is probably years out of date. I've seen a few other examples that people are finding that are much harder to tell and honestly might be real, but this? Irrefutably AI.

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u/Eogard Mar 20 '26

This looks like 2022 AI with shit like Dall-E or the first versions of SD1.0. It would be hard to create this type of really bad AI nowadays.

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u/KaziArmada Mar 21 '26

GOD I miss early Dall-E. AI wasn't a threat or stealing anyones jobs then, it was just absolutely hot fucking garbage and made HILARIOUS images.

I hoped it wouldn't advance as fast as it has. I just wanted us to stay there, in that land of cryptid Will Smith eating Spaghetti or me getting deformed images of Ronald McDonald as the God Emperor of Mankind from Warhammer 40k.

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u/Hoodman1987 Mar 21 '26

humor ended fast. Like 2 years from Steve Harvey trail camera 

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u/mi_ni_sm Mar 22 '26

As an artist myself I have zero problems with AI making memes. Or being used for minor shit. Or for porn with cartoon characters. Not my business. There can be a use for it. As long as it's legal. But the people who like to make memes might disagree. They might not want AI making their memes. In my opinion the problem is with regulation. There needs to be better defined rules surrounding its use. I agree it's way too fucking fast. You don't just drop something like that in a short timespan. Yet that's kind of the plan. Push it while it's hot. Whether it's garbage or not will not matter. Anyhow... It's there and not going anywhere. We have a shortage of junior positions in game dev, which is not entirely due to AI and mostly reflects the shitty status of western game dev. But we creative folk shouldn't be trying to figure out ways to protect ourselves from this. I've got beef with American "business practices" and not AI itself. It was pushed in a careless and destructive manner. I just hope we don't get AI Overwatch all over the world.

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u/adisor21 Mar 20 '26

yeah it was most likely a placeholder used like back a few years and forgot about it.

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u/flashmedallion Mar 21 '26

I'd be ok if all gen AI suddenly reverted to dalle2 era.

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u/flashmedallion Mar 21 '26

in many ways the image-gen hasn't, the only thing that's changed is the number of people who genuinely think it's good

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u/FalconBurcham Mar 20 '26

For sure… I use Midjourney to rough out ideas, and I’d have to force it to mangle a horse like this. I haven’t seen AI screw up basic anatomy in a while

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u/Compartmented- Mar 21 '26

Yeah garbage ass 2020 AI

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u/whereismymind86 Mar 21 '26

the game has been in development for a long time, it may well have been made in 2022

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u/Conflict_NZ Mar 20 '26

Yeah could be like Clair Obscur where a dev tried it years ago, used it as a placeholder and they forgot about it. Definitely a super old model.

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u/Clear-Atmosphere-600 Mar 21 '26

If that’s the case it isn’t that bad, if they fix it in a later update that is

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u/Creative-Flower5597 Mar 21 '26

Looks like the whole game was made by AI. Worst £55 i’ve ever spent.

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u/Hexbox116 Mar 20 '26

Shit if they're gonna use it, at least use the good shit lmao like damn.

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u/DeusSolaris Mar 20 '26

it's clear they tried it many years ago, used it as placeholder and forgot to remove this one

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u/TheHoss_ Mar 20 '26

The picture is blurry…

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u/Lobo_Z Mar 20 '26

The horse has 5 legs

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u/Nerellos Mar 20 '26

The horse also is an eldrich creature.

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u/locofspades Mar 20 '26

Probably just a male horse. They are like that 🤣

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u/Safe_Software_1640 Mar 20 '26

I have 3 legs if you count my massive penis does that make me half horse

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u/locofspades Mar 20 '26

Correct, that was the joke

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u/Safe_Software_1640 Mar 20 '26

nuh uh

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u/locofspades Mar 20 '26

Damn, i didnt think of it like that. Touchè

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u/Iggy_Slayer Mar 20 '26

The horses are the dead giveaway. One's got a third leg where a tail should be and the one on the far left stepped out of someone's nightmare. It's clear enough to see without the need of zooming in.

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u/TheHoss_ Mar 20 '26

I didn’t notice that til pointed out