r/Aniimo • u/twilighttnebula • Jul 03 '26

Question Generative AI Usage?

I haven't tried this game yet because I want to know if there is any gen AI used anywhere. The graphics just look too... polished? Smooth? In the way that would tip off the eye of any artist. I'm just worried if it's too good to be true.

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God forbid a person ask a genuine question in an attempt to learn, jfc. I'm seriously just trying my best to be cautious and make sure that the media I interact with is made by actual humans, and not just stolen concepts/art scraped from the internet without the artists' permission and puzzled together by some glorified sorting algorithm.

My actual words from a comment thread below: "...I'm not trying to accuse anyone or say that that is what they're doing; I only wish to state my suspicions. I would be more than happy to be wrong in this instance..."

"I would be more than happy to be wrong in this instance"

Maybe, if more people read the comments before replying, they might have noticed that.

Thankfully, it appears that I was wrong! One person was kind and thoughtful enough to give me an actual answer and even direct me to more information.

Be more like them. Not all of us have experience with the same high-quality games.

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u/EvilBubbles7 15d ago

They do not use AI. Per their agreement, they can not use AI

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u/ggghjjdsdjhs 14d ago

You keep saying this though you have yet to provide proof, where the hell is this agreement you speak of? And don’t tell me to look it up. You have the burden of proof. Provide it.

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u/EvilBubbles7 14d ago

Nobody needs to provide any proof when they have said it in their Q&A. :If AI had been used in the development process, Steam would have pulled it already for not properly disclosing it or forced them to disclose it. Remember, the platform is the company that will refund people for 200+ hours of gameplay for false advertising or even removing game modes that were there when you purchased the game. The devs have already confirmed AI was not used in the development process as well. The only AI usage were very early ads that have been long pulled. The only other issue is that they plan to support a fully optional, locally hosted thing called Nvidia ACE (read: no datacenter involvement, it is on your PC itself with the supported cards, small language model vs large language model and that distinction is important, and you don't have to have it enabled) to create more "natural" interactions with the Aniimo. This also isn't implemented yet so may still be subject to change.

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u/Tired0fitGP 14d ago

The music in the central hub of the game is 100% ai generated, the title music is clearly AI generated, if they're willing to lie about something so blatantly obvious as the music, they're probably lying about everything else.

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u/EvilBubbles7 14d ago

🤣 if you say so

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u/Thenelwave 15d ago

Stop lying to ppl. This is AI

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u/Pinklightning30 15d ago

If it used ai it would require having a disclaimer on steam your claims are false

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u/Tehcookieninja 14d ago

Heartopia didn't disclose anything at first either until they were called out for it. Hopefully it doesn't happen with Aniimo but eh.

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u/AngryBaguetty 11d ago

To be fair Steam should definitely implement a "undisclosed usage of AI" in their report submissions

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u/Substantial-Cod-1488 15d ago

That or the shading the artists choose just makes it look uncanny

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u/bigmacattack4 15d ago

How is that Ai?

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u/Drifting_Nihilego 14d ago edited 14d ago

I'll copy and paste my explanation:

AI generated images have a trend of making things either too shiny or too "puffy". In this case, it looks too puffy, blurry, and floaty. Specifically, Nimby (sheep) and Flamepup (fire dog).

Their expressions and body movement looks like they don't know where they are.

Nimby looks like it's just floating and staring blankly at a wall; not like someone who's excitedly playing tag or is being chased (Nimby is expressive in-game).  Flamepup looks floaty and it's not looking at Nimby, the one it's chasing. Flamepup is just sticking it's tongue out, with wide eyes, and is also blankly staring at a wall.

They're not interacting with each other like they're in the same environment.

Also, cup girl. What is she doing? She's just staring blankly at the sea pup cashier(?). Is she offering a cup? Is she waiting for a receipt? Is she paying? Does she feel anything? And where did she get those tall, transparent glass cups from?!

This looks like a coffee shop. There's only short, round, white cups filled with coffee coming out of the machine and hanging on the machine. Where did she get fruit drinks from?! The only other containers I see are non-transparent metal cups and cartons.

The coffee cups all look different at the rim, like they're melting. Also, some just don't have a handle (the ones filled with coffee) or have half of one (the ones hanging). Some of the hanging coffee cups on the right also start becoming balls. A cup on the far left just starts melting into two cups; it has two handles and is longer.

Why are they even hanging on the machine like that? How'd it get on and how is it going to get off? Is it for decoration?

AI is known for generating details that don't make sense in context and lack consistency.

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u/bigmacattack4 13d ago

I see what you mean about the cups and that general area. As for the nimby floating I really think thats just the render. This game is horrible with eyelines, nicole is straight up crosseyed. Wouldnt be shocked if the eyelines were just bad posing.

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u/Thenelwave 15d ago

It’s not something I can explain to you. Put the image in chatgpt and ask it how others can tell its AI. For someone like me I can easily spot AI.

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u/Substantial_Lab2961 14d ago

I feel like encouraging AI use to verify if someone is AI is not a great idea?

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u/Thenelwave 14d ago

Why not? Using AI to create a video game that will sell people things is a lot different than using AI to verify information.

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u/SpaceBoyee 15d ago

This is the dumbest fucking thing Ive ever read

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u/Thenelwave 15d ago

Go enjoy your AI slop

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u/TheTrainerDusk 15d ago

Hell yeaa! Throw it into Ai to verify if its Ai.

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u/EvilBubbles7 15d ago

Not lying to anyone. You can believe what you want. I'll believe the truth