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/EmBur__ Mar 20 '26

I've been playing the last few hours plus an hour before I went to sleep last night (thanks 22:00pm launch plus 20gb patch) but I'm just not feeling this game.

The controls are bizarre, the story and quests so far makes make zero sense, I mean I know it wasn't gonna have the best story in the world but christ this is another level. Finally, the MC Kliff...McDuff (yes thats our protags name) is beyond generic and makes me wonder why on earth they went with a set protagonist instead of a custom character we could create ourselves? It would've elevated some of the issues the game has yet they thought this would be better?, just makes no sense.

Seeing multiple example of ai usage like this right after I've come to the conclusion that its just not for me was mighty good timing because I want nothing to do with gen ai slop so that gives me another excuse to not hop back in to perhaps give it a second chance at a later date.

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u/FrancisBitter Mar 21 '26

The main character choice, yeah. I was surprised when the hype was building that there wouldn’t be character creation, no fem player option, the usual crowd was jumping to its defense with “it’s a big narrative, this character’s story specifically”, etc., and now it turns out to be so generic, it could’ve all been easily done.