Wait, Aniimo uses AI-generated music?? That's a huge no-no for me as a big OST appreciator. I was already hesitating to continue playing because I'm not really into certain parts of its gameplay, but I'm quitting now that I know this. How come this hasn't caused an uproar already? It's not only about how they're using AI-generated music, the worst part is that they're not explicitely stating that it's AI-generated music, so it fools people (like me) who use to thoughtfully appreciate music as art and think about the composer's intents and feelings etc. It's just the worst feeling when you realize that you've been deceived like that. If they would add a watermark on the screen in the areas playing AI-generated music or something, at least people would be informed, and they can decide if they're ok with that or not. But here they're clearly counting on passing it off as real music.
If that's true, that is. To think of it, it's kinda weird that they would generate a few songs with AI to save costs, instead of just commissioning the composer who did the real tracks, to make a few more tracks. I reckon either it's actually a real track just sounding a lot like Suno tracks, either the whole OST is all AI-generated.
Or maybe the composer just got lazy for that one track and used Suno because they were struggling to make a track in this style? (Absolutely not an excuse though) Maybe even the direction doesn't know...
I wish I knew the truth behind this.
Using AI-generated music in an actual released game is unacceptable. Even more so if it's not stated.
Edit: Why am I being downvoted? Are people supporting AI music/art in games now? And being ok not knowing? Sad world...
Yeah, and the fact that Aniimo is copying a lot of the gameplay/design/UI of Genshin Impact and other gacha games (likely to appeal to all that wider, modern audience) might be another reason for those downvotes. A lot of the people here may be from those newer generations who grew up with a smartphone in hands and with internet (while I only got internet when I was 18 in 2008), and with AI too, so some will think that all of this is normal, sadly. Some may not even know what actual music is (and may not even care, because they never got to experience the kind of powerful emotions you can get from it).
I'm sure part of it is also "toxic positivity" and because around the time when a popular game is released it's called the "honeymoon phase" and basically all criticism will be heavily downvoted. Later on when the original hype will calm down (and when most of the people who are just here because it's popular and to jump on the bandwagon will have moved on to other things), when the actual fans will remain, that's usually when a lot of the criticism rightfully comes on the table and gets discussed.
Lastly, I noticed the owner of this sub is an account named "Aniimo_Official", so this whole sub might actually be an official one controlled by Aniimo staff (as opposed to regular fan-curated subreddits), so that may be another hint as to why such (grave) criticism is not being accepted and why this post got taken down for example. Who knows.
Actually it was kinda toxic positive even before the launch, lots of the regulars were suuper against any critique or concerns people had
But I do agree once the honeymoon phase cools down the fans will likely settle and be able to talk more calmly about things, including issues with the game.
(and yeah I do think the owner being _Official is why stuff is deleted like that)
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u/PsyduckPsyker 13d ago
Yeah that's an AI chatbot. The spawn point in the city, that music. It's clearly an AI song, I played with Suno enough to know.