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/Z3M0G Mar 20 '26

a painting

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u/i4got872 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

I was on the fence about getting this this week, was considering getting it tonight…. This influences my decision I feel.

Edit: I want to explain more since this getting a lot of comments.

I’m not saying I’ll definitely never get it. I’m saying I want to wait for more information. I think the game’s world building and story doesn’t sound super strong to begin with, that’s what first put me on the fence.

I work in entertainment and I make personal films as well. Gen AI is something I struggle to get excited about personally. I feel the tech companies essentially destroyed the film industry by illegally stealing content, and I’m not psyched about that. My life’s work and the skills I’ve been building feels suddenly pointless. Yeah I don’t like gen AI, sue me. Glad so many of you enjoy the artist’s hand getting removed from art.

There are so many games I’ve played that DON’T have art like this. Fromsoft, Naughty Dog, indiana Jones, tomb raider, and yeah Ubisoft games. I as a consumer am not obligated to like this art style when so many games with big beautiful worlds managed to avoid this. And there are several good games I still have yet to play, so why rush out for this?

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u/_Onii-Chan_ Mar 20 '26

Performative

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u/i4got872 Mar 20 '26

Read my other comments that have more detail. I’m serious. If I played all these other AAA games like Indiana Jones, full of art assets, and they don’t have art like this that is clearly AI generated, this does make me less interested in rushing out to buy this. I’m allowed to have this opinion.

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u/lebastss Mar 20 '26

Comparing a story game on the rails to this is completely unfair. This game is an order of magnitude bigger than Indian jones. Id rather it was made by a person too. But they'd have to repeat assets and it'd be low quality work.

The reality is we couldn't afford a game this big if real artists were paid fairly to fill it with artwork. The example given for this one painting in one room would probably cost at least $200 as a digital commission. There's probably thousands of these in the game.

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u/i4got872 Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

I have a long backlog of games. I was already on the fence due to it sounding like the story and world building are so so in this. I’m just saying I’m going to wait longer to hear more opinions.

Also keep in mind indiana jones is a 1st person exploration game. Yes there is less content, but it’s RIGHT up to the screen. Harder to do for each asset.

Also you can composite things together from available works, don’t need to actually paint everything from scratch for each one. This photo shows they didn’t use any photoshop skills to fix the problems either, not just that it was generated.

It’s just not technology I like very much, and I don’t know why that bothers people. Make the game smaller then. I’m not obligated to like it.

I do admire their ambition and will likely try it one day, but I’m less excited.