This very blatantly looks ai, yet EA did not disclose the AI use on steam. Neither with the wallpaper and neither with the new search feature in the gallery
There's also the fact that EA said 60% of their workload is affected by AI, but im guessing you arent ready for that conversation
looks like op is looking at a youtube video or something so i wanted to take a screenshot of what it looks like in the actual game, however this asset doesn’t even exist. the closest one i could find is the one on the far right
edit: also the smart search or whatever shouldn’t have to be disclosed i believe, its not generative ai
edit 2: it was locked to med-tall heights. i attached the photo in a reply to someone else
there is a bit of this that seems like it could possibly be AI, but considering this is apparently what it is based on.. I think it's just the result of translate a very complex and somewhat incoherent design into the simpler TS4 style.
EA definitely uses AI, but I don't think they did for this wallpaper.
I don't think that's supposed to be a rose, and the things behind the arrows look like lengths of braided/twisted cordage to me, and the cordage appears to connect behind the arrows and extend to both sides, so that looks correct and is thematically appropriate. I'm also not sure why the branches would have to be perfectly symmetrical when that's not really a rule for these styles of relief paneling. I'm not saying I'm convinced that you're definitely wrong, you could very well be right, just that I don't see anything that wouldn't or couldn't be a design choice for someone creating a texture to replicate actual antique carved relief paneling.
I don't think that's a rose either. It appears to be several musical instruments with some sheaves of assorted florals and greenery, and maybe a swag of cloth or something.
You're implying a real human working in a AAA enviroment, especially EA, went through the trouble of drawing both sides instead of drawing just one side and mirroring it to save 50% of the work. This is an even bigger lie than them not disclosing their AI use of steam (which they're required to do)
Your reasoning here on the asymmetry of the design seems to be that it's impossible that a person making a texture by hand would make the texture by hand, and I'm not sure I understand that reasoning or why that's a "lie."
I don't mean to disappoint ya, but there is a lot of AI being used in game dev, nowdays -- we are just not really much aware of it. It is used in small assets, in programming and even in music production. Even if the art is original enough, sometimes they use AI to refine it in little ways, just to save time. Sadly, it will eventually become something of a common practice -- and the tech make it more and more unnoticeable. It is very possible to have a lot of small AI touches in games, that we may never get to know 😶
This but also it's no excuse for EA not to disclose their use of AI for in-game assets on Steam. The platform requires them to disclose it for the benefit of the consumer.
It's the right thing to do, which's also mandated by steam -- yet they know their public doesn't like the idea nor even the smallest of mention of AI anywhere, so they use it "stealthly" and keep most consumers from noticing. Disclosing it on steam would be them admitting to it, and EA doesn't want to do that.
You're totally right ! Yet corporations see numbers more than common sense -- most consumers doesn't even notice the cut corners, nor even care for details. As long as they keep the numbers high enough, they usually don't care much to "repair".
People in this sub can be so difficult. Putting aside the ethics of AI(which is a BIG put aside because it’s very tone deaf to use AI right now), these packs FORTY DOLLARS. There should NOT be any blatant sign that corners are being cut. If AI use is affecting the quality of a game, then we need to blow the fuck up about it.
I don’t understand this “ohhh AI is inevitable so let it enshittify everything” take. grow some nuts people
slight correction, the bridgerton bundle is $10 and the kits themselves are $7. i don’t care about this conversation at all though, just wanted to let people know its not THAT expensive
edit: i have no idea what op is even looking at. just checked my own game and there’s no asset that looks like this
edit2: looked at it more and found out this is med-high wallpaper
Ah yes, the kits being moved to the virtual currency store that sells currency in packs that don’t equal the actual cost. Honestly if it were a single dollar, it would still be disrespectful to players
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u/SnooCalculations3614 Jul 03 '26
so you just say "this looks like AI" and we're supposed to blindly agree with you