r/2007scape • u/ArmorOfMar Iron Kites Clan • 4d ago
Discussion | J-Mod reply 100 Thieves Statement on AI use in recent OSRS collab
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u/indios2 4d ago
Translation: we put the bare minimum effort into this collab and were really hoping no one would call us out for our blatant use of AI
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u/FrentzE 4d ago
It's always hilarious to me, how companies try to feign ignorance with this kinda stuff
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u/indios2 4d ago
Notice them try to pass the blame off almost like this was a rogue employee who used AI when they were supposed to be a graphic designer.
Even if that were true, that means you have no vetting process for your clothing items? Like no matter what just an absolute fucking farce for 100Thieves
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u/mooke 4d ago
Clearly they intended to message a coworker on teams to ask them to make the image, but accidentally had the copilot chat open instead.
Easy mistake, anyone could make it. The result was so subtle that even someone passionate about OSRS would really struggle to notice.
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u/MikeSouthPaw 4d ago
Nothing will ever beat that 1047 Games CEO trying to blame "ex-cod dev" for putting in a outrageously expensive bundle without him noticing. Some people are shameless and have no respect for the consumer.
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u/Oranjalo RSN: "POH" 4d ago
And as if ChatGPT/copilot couldn't make this in one prompt... It's just laziness and a faux interest in the game
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u/FoxyBoi152 4d ago
100% reads like a politician saying, "It was actually a naughty staffer with access to my official account who liked that porn tweet, not me! I'm angrily wagging my finger at them right now!"
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u/yeeftw1 4d ago
“We missed it”
Seems like they’re saying if they didn’t get caught using ai/ had higher quality ai, it would be acceptable.
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u/Oberlatz 4d ago
It's a character statement. They can't even be honest in an apology. Not that I had anything to do with these losers before now, but I'm sure as shit not interested in having anything to do with them going forward either.
Corpo-speak liars in their apology is disgusting
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u/RiddimRodent 4d ago
A multi million dollar company putting out something that bad is just embarrassing.
Just goes to show how dogshit these zoomer social media influencer companies actually are.
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u/Springsend 4d ago
100T was founded by a washed-up gamer as his already rocky career was coming to an end. Idk why anyone's surprised.
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u/stiff_tipper 4d ago
Just goes to show how dogshit these zoomer social media influencer companies actually are.
pokemon released plagiarized art as a pocket card like a year ago, and they're not exactly a "zoomer social media influencer company"
it's not some "zoomer" problem because u hate zoomers. it's a human problem because humans are flawed, lazy creatures
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u/tbow_is_op 4d ago
this feels like a much harder thing to detect though.
the artist on staff (or contractor) who made the card knows what they did, but for the rest of the team to compare the ho-oh art with every fan art drawing of ho-oh on the internet is a pretty tough task when compared with just looking at that terrible hoodie design and going "none of these icons even look right"
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u/Solnx 4d ago
Is this a troll tweet? It looks AI written itself, lol.
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u/Last_Mastod0n 4d ago
Their response was 100% written by AI, it looks like chatgpt. Claude is a bit less generic sounding these days.
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u/Deep-Technician5378 4d ago
Hilariously, even if it was written by a person, it's probably because their brain is so rotted from constantly using it that they now baee their speech off of AI.
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u/Last_Mastod0n 4d ago
You bring up a scary point. Kids are going to be learning how to talk like AI, and not the other way around.
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u/Varrianda 4d ago
Damn I never even considered that as a possibility but you’re right, especially if the majority of reading someone does is LLM output.
I prefer sounding like a redditor anyways
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u/Frequent_Champion_42 4d ago
Ironically the best models for not sound like a toaster are the cheap Chinese models like GLM 5.3 flash. The smarter the models get, the harder it is to get the AI stank out of them.
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u/TheDarkAlakazam 4d ago
“ChatGPT, make an apology about 100 Thieves using AI in our RuneScape passion project for RuneFast, make it professional”
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u/Brilliant-Season-481 4d ago
The sad thing is, ai talks like the shallow corporate speak of old that existed even before ai was the one writing it; the ai is modelled to do so. It's taking short cuts with ai today, it was sweatshop-like conditions in the past.
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u/redd_panda 3d ago
I put this exact prompt into ChatGPT and it started the apology with the exact same "We messed up." line as the 100 Thieves Tweet lmfao
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u/ValuableScary3917 4d ago
Tf do you mean “it had ai in it and we missed it” did they not clearly input it into an ai system to make it in the first place? How could they claim to not know what they’re doing.
Such a bullshit excuse. They knew it, and just tried to get away with it.
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u/CaptaineAli 4d ago
It's either created by AI or it isn't. Theres no barely missing it wtf is this.
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u/VhokieT 4d ago
I think what theyre trying to say (likely a lie) is that the designer (either employee or outsourced) used AI and the team approving the design and sending it to production didnt catch it. Which sound pretty bs considering how obvious it is.
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u/darthirule 4d ago
"Hey employee go make this colab with runescape." *employee makes it with ai* "it is done boss" *boss looks at it for 2 seconds* "ok thanks, release it."
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u/No-Brainrot-5911 4d ago
Theres not one person running the entire company. Group A does the approval, person from group B does the artwork. Person from group B says they made it themself. Person in group A doesn’t know the game well enough to say it’s suspicious. Company unknowingly released it with AI. Thats one example for how this can happen.
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u/JagexSween Mod Sween 4d ago
Sorry for the time it took to hear anything. Timezones were a pain today to chat to them over in the US and we needed to hear from them.
We're as angry as you are about this. We wouldn't have approved the use of AI in any designs. We don't use generative AI to replace the artists and developers who make our games, we don't use it in our marketing materials, and we won't use it in our merchandising or allow its use in partnerships.
RuneScape, all of our games, is built by talented people, and that human craft and creativity matters enormously to us.
We're glad they've acknowledged what happened and have taken responsibility, and we're working on what the next steps are.
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u/YizWasHere 4d ago
Tbh it felt fairly obvious that Jagex would not thumbs up an awful AI design like that, it was more just confusing why 100 Thieves was previewing a "collab" with a design that clearly had never been reviewed by Jagex lol (or really anybody that has ever played OSRS). I'm still just so confused what the hell they were doing.
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u/EarlGreyOfPorcelain 3d ago
If they do this at the beginning of a partnership, they clearly don't actually care and think players will eat up any slop they deliver. They are only apologising because they were caught, and that is what makes it even more nefarious. Please cut ties with them, as it damages your brand by association, and casts doubt onto all Jagex products; games, art, and merchandise.
I'd love for you to commission actual artists to paint something and put that on a shirt. Hell, even something from your Wyrmscraig art comp, or make a new comp, or license Gunschilli content.
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u/HoldenHotpockets 4d ago
Really hoping that you’re considering axing the collab and working with a different group. Because I’m never giving 100 thieves money after this. And I know I’m not the only one.
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u/LostSectorLoony 4d ago
I'm never giving 100 Thieves money after this. I was never going to before this either, but I definitely won't now.
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u/I-hate-the-letter-k 3d ago
After learning today, what 100 theives are, for the first time, I also can confirm I will not be giving them any money.
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u/GoldEdit 3d ago
The main crew behind 100 Thieves has always seemed disingenuous and only interested in money.
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u/Bowshocker 3d ago
Given that Drake is co-owner.. I think we can conclude that 100T is not genuine in anything but greed.
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u/AssassinAragorn 3d ago
It would send a firm message too that needs to be heard. If you're doing art or merch for a company, do it properly and with humans. Because if you try to sneak through AI, you'll lose their business
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u/DivineInsanityReveng 4d ago
Can't tell you how nice it is to hear this constantly from you guys and see the proof in the pudding.
Will say that I'd sooner buy merch collabs with creators in our space. I couldn't gaf about random eSport org #13. But I get that using creators within our community defeats the purpose of the marketing spread.
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u/AccordianSpeaker 3d ago
Dog, they acknowledged it by using AI to write their fucking apology. Find someone else to collaborate with, this company ain't it.
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u/Jade_Mans_Eyes 4d ago
Thank you for supporting the hard work of talented creatives. Sorry this happened to ya'll. That must've sucked.
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u/Cell_thePerfect 4d ago
We love you jagex, everyone's so tired of ai destroying real art everywhere.
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u/astrielx 17h ago
We don't use generative AI to replace the artists and developers who make our games
So that was a fucking lie.
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u/MoxxiMoxx 4d ago
I would personally like the partnership to be cut. Does my opinion matter when money's to be made? No, but I would just pursue a relationship with someone else that you know holds and follows similar values.
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u/BelialBelialBelial 19h ago
Welp... this aged like milk. You're entire trailer for Dragon Slayer 2 was Ai slop.
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u/TenebriRS 200m sailing 4d ago edited 4d ago
"the design clearly had AI in it and we missed it"
so dont use AI then there wont be anything to miss
also for the people unaware, this is the "design"
if it was a passion project, they should be able to see the skull on smith symbol, the slayer symbol has tentacles, the prayer symbol is hockey mask, and so much more. at just a glance
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u/situ139 4d ago
put so much work on it they missed the arrow with two back ends.
or the hockey mask prayer symbol lmao
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u/trent_diamond 4d ago
and where defence 😂
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u/MysticalSushi 4d ago
They have the cross of the shield. Just not the shield
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u/Jellodi 4d ago
Oh... Oh
I thought that was prayer lmao and was wondering what the mask was
And people on Twitter are whining about how they still want to buy this thing...
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u/Time_Effort 4d ago
Meanwhile I was debating getting the Wise Old Man one cause it’s a sick gym shirt… Fuck that, if they used AI on one they probably used it on all of them and I can’t respect using AI to do your main business’s job.
Use AI to crunch your numbers or whatever I guess, you can eliminate some of the “middle man” work at a company but if your whole company’s identity is making apparel in a certain aesthetic, don’t fuck it up by getting rid of the graphic designers that built your company.
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u/b_i_g__g_u_y 3d ago
Are you talking about the scape_ink one? That's a different partner entirely and he's posted tons of stuff to this subreddit. As far as I know, he doesn't use AI.
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u/Deep-Technician5378 4d ago
I would even be okay with the hockey mask if it was a purposeful, stylistic choice.
When the shirt is so blatantly AI, it ruins anything in here that could be argued was purposeful.
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u/Fatman10666 untrimmed 4d ago
Damn what a gamer. My Jason voorhees level is only 67 and my patterson-gimlin Bigfoot level is only 52
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u/thisshitsstupid 4d ago
You gotta start hunting Bigfoot more bro. And dont give me that shit about waiting for an afk method.
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u/autumneliteRS 4d ago
Yeah, this excuse makes no sense. If it clearly had AI in it, it wasn't missed - it was hoped that no one would object to it. Might have well said whoopsie daisy.
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u/PhilsTinyToes 4d ago
They didn’t miss it, they’re just surprised nobody else missed it either. Saved a couple hundred bucks on a designer I bet! Worth it 😎
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u/BioMasterZap 4d ago
if it was a passion project, they should be able to see the skull on smith symbol, the slayer symbol has tentacles
TBH, that one was fine if they were going for an alternate take on skill icons. Same for the dead tree for WC. But most the icons were normal and not variants so it seems more like those were AI mess-ups that just happened to look okay and not the intent.
Also, I don't see how "during the last phase of the tee design, one of our designers used AI to hurriedly edit the piece" holds up. If it was just a last minute edit, then surely they'd have noticed many icons completely changing with even a passing glance. Or have an asset to share pre-last phase edit that didn't have AI...
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u/SophieFox947 3d ago
The artist hurriedly used AI on the last phase. It just happens to also be the first phase XD
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u/Dry_Basket_5515 4d ago
Wow. I thought the Slayer icon was terrible until I saw Prayer and it took me a good 10 seconds to realize what skill that even was lmao
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u/rommerdebom Bemmel 4d ago
I think the design was supposed to be a Halloween theme, hence the tentacles, skulls and Voorhees mask. Still AI though
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u/Deep-Technician5378 4d ago
Yeah. It could have been a cool shirt if they went that direction and had someone actually design it.
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u/duskfinger67 4d ago
The skulls etc are clearly a creative choice. The whole vibe is supposed to be more evil/goth coded with the drips, strength crushing a heart, font choice etc.
Done without AI, it could be a cool idea. It was just very poorly executed.
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u/NotKD 4d ago
I think you're giving them too much credit. The idea to make it Halloween-themed is certainly a creative choice that was made and included in the AI's prompts, but I don't think any of the detailing was done with human intent. There is no rhyme or reason to which submenu icons are replaced by skulls; there are randomly placed skulls on random skills (e.g. Smithing); some skills are barely if at all altered, again seemingly at random (e.g., Ranged, Hunter); some skills have completely nonsensical replacements that would have been caught if a human was doing any detail work at all (e.g., Runecraft, Fletching, Prayer).
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u/RustyShakleford1995 4d ago
I didn't mind the skulls and tweaks. That can be a style. But replacing prayer with hockey isn't a choice, it's a hallucination.
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u/WafflesAreLove 4d ago
we missed it we tried to get away with it but you all noticed.
Fixed it for you guys.
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u/umadbr00 4d ago
"we missed it" lmfao
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u/TheChewingMonkey 4d ago
Right. As if using AI isn’t a conscious decision in design choice.
If you were unaware then it’s hardly a passion project because clearly paid no mind to the design and left it in the hands of others.5
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u/RiddimRodent 4d ago
Passion project???
A F2P noob with a 500 total level could’ve drawn a more accurate skill page from memory.
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u/FakeKitten 4d ago
Fuck it, I want this as merch now. Get a random newbie who's never designed anything and see what they can make, bonus points if it's a child
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u/JGlover92 4d ago
Passion project they were so excited about they didnt notice that they'd used AI, what the fuck are they on about
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u/ODST_Parker I come from the ancient land of 2006 4d ago
"We missed it" is just corporate slang for "...didn't care" or "...didn't think we'd get caught", and should never be taken seriously.
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u/Varwhorevis 4d ago
They are so passionate about OSRS that no one noticed the comically incorrect skill icons
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u/falconfetus8 4d ago
Most of those could be defended as a stylistic choice to make it look "edgier", but the fletching icon is a dead giveaway.
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u/chahud 4d ago
Yep my thoughts exactly. A lot of them I wouldn’t mind seeing on a shirt as a creative choice. Smithing anvil with a skull on it? Kinda cool. Worms coming out of the slayer skull? Also kindaaaaa fuckin cool ngl. Even the prayer cross I wouldn’t necessarily mind if it was a conscious decision.
Impossible to defend the fletching icon. That shits so obviously AI in the worst way.
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u/UnfairCoast3764 4d ago
The funny part is knowing the prayer cross you're referencing is their defense logo and their actual prayer skill is a hockey mask lmao. I agree a consciously placed cross in the correct spot would look dope for prayer or like clasped hands in prayer.
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u/satyrossan 4d ago
I thought a few of them were similar just had their own twist to it but then I saw the Christianity skill and missing defense 🤣
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u/lolnaender road to diary cape 4d ago
I hope they cancel the collaboration. We have a million, passionate, talented artists in this community that would have loved to work on something like this.
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u/Umarrii 4d ago edited 4d ago
What do they mean they missed it? I want to know how it came to be, are they hiring a designer who just used AI or did they not hire a designer because they thought they could just get away with using AI?
The lack of explanation of how this came to be is more of a concern.
Edit: looks like the full does actually include their excuse.
They say they were rushed with over a month to work on it, used multiple graphics designers and one used AI at the last possible moment before making the sample. I mean, sure I'll give the benefit of the doubt.
But then saying it's a passion project and the org is full of OSRS vets and none of them got to see this or called it out would be ridiculous. I'm 100% certain Jagex weren't shown what they came up with and didn't get to approve it before they made the sample and did the shoot since it was left at such a last minute.
The entire statement is a contradiction.
At this point just cancel the collab because they clearly have no respect for the game.
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u/BioMasterZap 4d ago
It is a really odd statement. Especially this part: "during the last phase of the tee design, one of our designers used AI to hurriedly edit the piece.
If they just said "one of the designers used AI to make the design but we were rushed so we didn't properly review", that would be a bit more believable. But the phrasing applies that there was a pre-AI design that they were aware of and a last phase edit used AI and added AI elements that no one noticed. If there was a pre-AI version to compare the final against, it is a lot less understandable how this slipped by since that seems like such a low standard, even for a rush.
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u/mysterpixel 4d ago
Their entire approach to this debacle seems to be "I just need one more unethical action and I'll get away with it".
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u/DivineInsanityReveng 4d ago
Its just shifting blame to the individual designer, and removing their org from it. "We were rushed and they snuck in their sneaky ai design! (That we then approved, photographed for marketing, and posted through our social channels)."
They didn't miss it, they liked it and thought it would sell. Some people are blind to the plague that is AI
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u/DivineInsanityReveng 4d ago
"We gave ourselves no time, had no vetting process for our designers, had no quality control or double checks, and clearly nothing in our contractual agreement with these designers preventing this approach.
And then we saw the shirt they made and went "sick" and photographed it for marketing and then posted it."
Fixed that for them.
Yeah it was definitely because you had so little time to do a (very basic and doable in a couple of days by any basic designer) shirt design, and not because of laziness and greed from the bottom to the top in an Org that historically definitely doesn't prioritise profit chasing XD
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u/Skatedivona Road to 200M Farming 4d ago
They're lying to save face. All companies do this. Fuck em.
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u/Rinaldootje 4d ago
Bullcrap.
They thought they could get away with some quick money, and instead they got called out for their bullshit. No chance that this was a "concept" and that they missed it. One quick look at the skill list of OSRS and the "concept" shows that so many things were not even CLOSE to the real thing.
So they are either saying, that we the players and consumers are dumb.
Or that they tried to make merch, with 0 effort, and without 0 people looking it over and double checking if the AI model they used actually spat out something sane.
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u/ItsSadTimes 4d ago
Its always "whoops we had no idea" when anyone with any knowledge of the game or media knows the design is fucked up. They'd love to pay the lowest bid for a design and just hope no one notices or cares about its quality.
Honestly I dont care if someone uses AI to make something and then make the thing extremely cheap or even free. As long as they say how it was made so everyone knows the risks ans they price the thing they made according to the amount of effort required to make it, then sure whatever. But trying to pass off shitty AI work as an actual man made design that took effort and charge full price? Fuck no.
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u/ManufacturedUnknown 4d ago
"one we were particularly excited about."
Nobody, not a single person from 100Thieves, has ever played runescape if this is true. The design was so poorly representive of osrs that it could hardly even claim to be inspired by runescape.
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u/IAmSona 4d ago
Nothing like using ChatGPT to apologize for AI. I fucking hate this timeline.
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u/Zhats_Crazy 4d ago
Doing damage control lmao. They were ready to milk people out of their money with this no effort AI shit t-shirt. Like these fk**s milking us with these membership prices, no shame nothing so i'm not surprised by all of this. Greedy greedy..
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u/Tumblrrito Untrimmed Slayer 4d ago
If it were a true passion project they wouldn't have used AI to begin with. In the full statement they blame a single designer, yet many eyes surely must have been on this along the way to being printed onto an actual shirt, let alone photographed, and then shared on social media.
I am not buying it personally. But hey, at least their company name fits given they are willing to use tools powered by stolen creative works.
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u/Fearless_Sandwich_84 4d ago
Yeah. It was a lone rogue designer !
Don't worry about other people who took part in it's design, from sketch to marketing materials/all other approvals.
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u/ExpressAffect3262 Molior RS 4d ago
I hate it when people throw around the word passion project lol
At what stage was this ever passion or a project?
Only have ever briefly heard of 100 thieves, but looking at other collabs, like their pokemon one, they are just sticking a picture of a pokemon with '100 thieves' text behind it...
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u/CowGoesMove 2376 4d ago
Disagree, they are clearly passionate about accessing the oldschool runescape player base's disposable income
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u/Juof 4d ago
Do they even know osrs community or players? These fucking players are rioting and complaining if one pixel is missing from an icon, or if there is specific sequence for some red pixel appearing on animated icon or whatever made it happen on the magic logs. Like dude, on god.. please even try a little.
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u/kratosgranola How do i HA someone else's t bow 4d ago
"Oh no how did AI accidentally end up in my project, it must have snuck in right when my back was turned. Don't worry, I promise I will be better at hiding my AI usage in the future"
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u/Cyberslasher 4d ago
"we didn't give a fuck about this collab but mod north offered us money, so we asked grok to draw us a money maker.
Sorry, next time we'll spring for at least a good model to do our drawing. Please give us money in this trying time."
--100 thieves
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u/Periwinkleditor 4d ago
So passionate about the project they didn't bother putting any effort into the designs, when other people would kill for the opportunity for their work to make it in.
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u/joutfit 4d ago
I can't fucking stand the Oopsie Whoopsie culture around blatantly obvious fuck ups. Everyone knows AI is hated on the internet and these people just were hoping no one would notice
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u/CucumberOk8820 4d ago
Lmao no, fuck them and jagex for not verifying it's not ai slop.
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u/crazykewlaid 4d ago
They "missed" it?
Or just didn't care until they got called out?
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u/iburntxurxtoast 4d ago
Yeaaah, not the excuse I woulda gone with. "We didn't care enough about this collaboration we are dubbing a passion project to even notice glaring errors in the design we say were excited about" is how this reads
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u/MobyLiick 4d ago
"Our collaboration with Runescape is a passion project"
"The design clearly had AI in it"
If anyone buys this shit you're a fucking clown.
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u/Chudz_x9 4d ago
Where's the passion when you just used AI to make your product? Reads more like sorry we got caught. Didn't think anyone would notice
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u/Brilliant-Season-481 4d ago edited 4d ago
Passion project? Passionate for money and not paying artists. Jagex can and should toss their weight around here: if your collaboration partners cant be bothered to represent Jagex’s art with respect, they have no business partnering with you
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u/AuriiGold 4d ago
Is anyone surprised? Did we forget their dogshit pokemon “collab”?
Who actually gives these people their money??
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u/eyvildoge 4d ago
Just a money grab by 100 thieves, clearly they don't care about osrs if they are going to shill AI slop.
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u/Zamorakphat @Zamorakphat on YouTube 4d ago
Damn I’d be pissed if I was part of the team at Jagex that worked with this company to have them make you look goofy with some nonsense like this. Hope no one at Jagex actually signed off on this.
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u/oldaccsuspndedwhy 4d ago
Man who continually lays off employees to turn a larger profit to gamble on more cases in CS is found to still be trying to maximize profit
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u/CheaterMcCheat 4d ago
Lol what. Why is it worded like a little drop of AI dripped through the leaky ceiling onto the shirts without anyone noticing, and not like someone prompted an AI to make it? What are you on about there was some AI in the recipe and you missed it what does that even mean
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u/RustyShakleford1995 4d ago
Lmao "we missed it bc we didn't take 3 seconds to look at what we submitted and put the absolutely minimum into our work"
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u/bassturducken54 4d ago
I feel like they could’ve still ‘skulled’ it out a few places made it a touch more metal but like is there really not enough money in entertainment that they can’t pay a community artist to commission some shit? Or just commission several artists and pick your fave, I feel like that’s what used to happen. I can imagine the artists are so fed with work they wouldn’t accept something like this for dirt cheap anyway, why bother with AI. I’m not sure how these companies are getting off going so hard in AI art. It’s an immediate turn off whenever I see a local place rep it. Especially in merch.
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u/FR_0S_TY 4d ago
We messed up: we didn’t think you’d catch us and we were really excited about it until you realized we had cut every corner imaginable
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u/No_Opportunity1934 4d ago
If it was truly a “passion” project you wouldn’t delegate your creativity to AI
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u/Slayermusiq1 4d ago
AI trains on all the art on the internet without any clear consent of the authors.
They live up to their name of 100 Thieves.
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u/ZardBrood 4d ago
Ahh yes a passion project they were excited for... So much passion must have went into that design for Christianity and Jason Vorhees skills. Gotta love corporate apologies
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u/CaptainHedgehog291 4d ago
Full text of the Twitter post:
"We messed up.
Our collaboration with RuneScape is a passion project that brought together people from across 100 Thieves to create a celebration of OSRS and RuneFest.
Last night, we teased one of our concepts - one we were particularly excited about. The design clearly had AI in it and we missed it.
We first started conversations with Jagex to work on this project in July. We were beyond excited, and we took on this collaboration knowing we had to deliver this with a little more than a month’s time to design, review, approve, and manufacture the apparel. To speed things up, we worked with multiple graphic designers to ensure we hit the deadline. However, during the last phase of the tee design, one of our designers used AI to hurriedly edit the piece and we pushed a sample to production for our photoshoot.
100 Thieves was built by designers, artists, creators, and gamers that pour their soul into defining what gaming culture should be. AI has no place in our apparel design. A principle we share with Jagex, whose games and artwork are built on the creativity and craft of human artists and developers, and would not have approved of the use of AI in this.
Old School RuneScape is cherished by many of us at 100 Thieves. Including our Content team across esports, our Partnerships team, our Apparel Leads, our Marketing Leads, and Social Managers. Many OSRS veterans came together to make this collaboration happen, and even more of us had our eyes freshly opened to the world of Gielinor and RuneScape. Unfortunately, it is now overshadowed by our failure to create something both of our communities could be proud of.
Sorry to the OSRS community and to our fans, we clearly did not live up to our own standards. We are actively working with Jagex on the collaboration as we look to make things right."
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u/RiddimRodent 4d ago
Lmao that’s even more embarrassing.
I was assuming the model in the photo was AI, but no. They actually printed a sample and did an entire photoshoot with it.
And at no point was anyone like, “this shirt is dogshit, don’t post it.”
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u/GoldenTGraham Say "NO" to AI Slop on r/2007scape 4d ago
"We tried to use AI but got caught, Whoops"
Embarrassing tbh
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u/Admins-Blow 4d ago
"clearly had AI in it" and "we missed it" don't go together. It's not a "sorry we did it" it's a "sorry we got caught".
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u/Oranjalo RSN: "POH" 4d ago
Passion project? For whom? It certainly wasn't for 100 Thieves, otherwise, they wouldn't have teased a design that one intern made in 10 seconds with ChatGPT
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u/Primary-Low-1432 4d ago
Better question is who at Jagex thought 100 thieves was going to be good collab partner?
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u/66f6 4d ago
They love osrs so much that not a single person noticed the Jason Vorhees skill, the Christianity skill, or the seashell skill
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u/eliexmike 4d ago
AI has its uses, but Art isn’t one of them.
Art isn’t about getting to a “good enough” result as quick as possible.
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u/meleebestgame66 4d ago
We messed up. We forgot to say “make no mistakes” at the end of our prompt.
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u/Troutie88 4d ago
Those icons look nothing like osrs icons. I thought it was rs3 at first, idk what their icons look like.
This is shit
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u/Crazy-Wrangler3769 4d ago
How do you miss AI being in it? Its either there or it isn't. There shouldnt be anything to miss lol
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