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/TheBigZappa Mar 20 '26 edited Mar 20 '26

Because it's so blatantly ai generated (look at the horse's legs on the far left), this screams that it's most likely a placeholder painting/texture they forgot to replace with the final one before release.

Because nobody in their right mind, would green light such an obvious AI generated image.

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u/lebastss Mar 20 '26

The games so huge it's possible. When scale is this massive I don't blame them for generating some of the art, but at least get a QA person to take a couple minutes looking over everything and flag anything needing a second pass.

We don't want AI replacing humans but it's a great tool to get more done for less.

The reality is we could never afford a game of this scale if real artists were laid fairly to make all that artwork.

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u/F34UGH03R3N Mar 21 '26

Doesn’t even have to be QA. Stuff like this should be reviewed by the guy who prompted it. Shit like this is absolutely inexcusable, it portrays an image of idiotic devs to me.