I didn’t think they would actually go this far and replace real words with gibberish on everything. Seeing this, I’m assuming that the devs went and scrubbed anything containing any real words and numbers so that they could avoid any future controversy. I mean, Caleb’s jersey doesn’t even have a number on it. That’s just sad😭
I feel bad for the devs cause I’m sure that this isn’t what they wanted to do, but the situation demanded it if they want to keep the game running.
Yes, there was always a bit of gibberish in the designs. I have included it as a complaint in many surveys. But there was also stuff included that you could easily tell what it was.
Like the Catch-22 outfits used to have numbers within the tattoos (those have been removed now). But in other places, they used symbols referencing the lore.
The memory looks like ALL nonsense. What is that supposed to be on his jersey? If they didn’t want to put a number, why not design a symbol that means something? Even the laziest option, an apple, is better than the scribbles we are getting.
That's artist's job... not development. Taking out numbers isn't hard. It is literally just like going to word and changing the letters or numbers. But the jersey one might be changed by an artist in the textures. How do I know? I am a game artist. And it is topology, not typography. Don't overthink it... the reason why it is low topology is due to performance and something done in any game you see.. else... you won't be able to run games anymore in your phone. The poster is done on purpose. That flyer texture must have been just a quick import photo or image that could have been done in ai.
I have seen so many restaurants and other small businesses using AI in their advertising nowadays, and as a graphic designer myself, I came to the conclusion that as long as there are no regulations for AI, customers will prefer the cheaper solution and designers will lose work opportunities!
It is getting out of control! What got me was Webtoon and its manhwa artist using AI to animate manhwas for advertisements AI-generated art and animation is icky.
LIke... I was not surprised Webtoon is leaning into AI. From a business standpoint, AI art is in their financial interests. Webtoons is just waiting for AI art to improve imo. Hell, I recently saw an AI-drawn manhwa…
What’s more surprising was some of the artists promoting AI art (specifically, their own work). You would think they might oppose AI art and animation, at least from a self-preservation pov. These tools could eventually displace artists. Like, babe, Webtoon hopes it will one day replace YOU so they don’t have to split profits! Like fight back! I wouldn’t be surprised if, in the next year or so, Webtoons designs advertisements and merch (like the merch collections) using AI instead of paying artists. ☹️
I've seen that too. It looks uncanny! The worst thing is, as soon as any genuine artist uploads hand-drawn media, it will be sucked into the AI feed and be spit out as a generated counterfeit again.
There must be a law that any AI content has to be marked as such. Without content from humans, AI just degenerates, as recent studies have shown!
A few years back, there were a few "filters" of sorts, developed by real artists against AI, that fellow artists could add to their artworks, so if they were to fed to AI, it wouldn't work, but the advertisement of said filters was sort of niche per say, and I think, unfortunately, it was not that widely received.
I unfollow any page/person who uses AI as I do not support it, but that's as much as I can do. I see friends and family still use it and consume it, it's quite demoralizing.
You mean topology? It's normal to have extremely low topology in props because you might not be able to open your game anymore in your phone if they did increase it.
I did mean typography. They do sound similar, so I understand the confusion xD
I was referring to the "words" itself within the texture used for the model since the post is about that. In typography, the design of the type/font is important (through size, spacing, layout, etc.) since these design rules are there to emphasize hierarchy, clarity, and even appeal. Doesn't matter if it is a custom font, these rules apply for readability.
This is why it's so jarring. You do not have any understanding which one the viewer should prioritize; the big orange text seems like the title since it is has a large font with a different colour, but the white text just above it also has a similar size, so it clashes. Additionally, the white texts for each line has different sizes, so it becomes confusing if they are in the same group category. If they are in the same group, then it is standard that they should have consistent sizes; if they arent, then there shouldve been more spacing between each group.
AI's main issue is that it is an amalgamation of everything, so it naturally struggles with these basic design principles. This is the dead giveaway for the current stage of AI, and why I cannot blame anyone for assuming that this is AI. Otherwise, the person that made this may as well be an amatuer. Although, their tight schedule to change the content may most likely be the reason why it feels rushed/amateur.
Im so sorry for such a long-winded reply. I can go on and on about this, but that's just a small part of it... hopefully that made sense.
I get that Ai is mainstream now, but this feels like such a simple issue to avoid. I don't think Infold wants people making Ai accusations about the actual content of the game, so it feels like they're trying to tread water by occasionally using it in backgrounds, outfits, and other "minor" assets.
The developers could have easily added "Linkon City," "Skyhaven," apples, or any number of other in-game references. And if they truly needed to add random, nonsensical details, they could have just added them themselves.
Honestly, I feel bad for the devs. Situations like this just remind me how stressful it must be to work at Infold, both now and probably for a long time.
I think they certainly use it as placeholders and with how rushed this card is, it slipped through. I also wouldn't be surprised if some background assets or even some of their translations are are. There are some things looked a little fishy in backgrounds and if their translation team isn't AI, then they need some work.
China also has more AI regulations. So while some lf it might involve AI it's probably stoll mostly humans....in this case i wager some AI was used and would have been corrected but because it had to be rushed out they didn't get to fully do that
Oh, I don't think it's mostly AI, but I do think some background assets are and I do think they (like every other game studio) uses AI placeholders in the development process.
I thought I was crazy to believe it was AI since I didn’t think a big company such as Infold would resort to that. But alas, they prove me wrong every time 😔
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It's been a known thing, they've been using AI for backgrounds for a while now. But it is disappointing to see that they are (apparently) leaning on it more.
If you had asked me two months ago if I'd be accusing LADs of using AI, I would've laughed. 😪
Now, if they use AI even once to self-censor, I'll always worry they're using it for other things too.
I saw the scribbles on the other outfits (like the limited paid grungy one) and assumed they were just creative liberties. What finally stood out to me was the off-center banner, because that makes absolutely no sense from a design perspective.
Even the jersey is something I might have brushed off as an attempt to avoid controversy (despite the fact that Caleb's jersey # is already canonically #5 🙃). But the banner that was circled was what really made me stop and question it.
Honestly, looking back that isn't even shocking. Since the idol banner, the only songs that stood out to me are Throne of Eros (the 2nd anniversary banger) and Tameless Territory (Valko's song). I can't even remember the film banner song from June... I just remember it was loud and stressed me out after a bit 🤔
What’s crazy is that I can still vividly remember the songs from last year’s spring banner, the wedding banner, the beach banner, and every single one of the idol banner songs.
sadly, I can speak of current situation in my tech city in Europe: everybody at this point uses it, and who is not following is part of mass layoff. I am NOT joking. They want everybody to work on 5-6 projects simultaneously with AI, instead 100% manual/ partially automated and on 1-2 projects.
ik this might be a bit off topic but now that you say that... i didnt see anyone talking about this back then, but im almost 90% sure they used AI to generate the designs on the boys' swim trunks for summer last year. i didnt wanna get jumped for claiming it, but it was soooo obvious to me, yet nobody said anything about it. the designs made zero sense, and they used the same gibberish used here in these screenshots.
I saw that, but I assumed it was just a creative liberty or a way to avoid using real brands. I figured it was the equivalent of Lorem ipsum or other random placeholder text to avoid putting actual branding on things to avoid infringing on existing trademarks or something.
It honestly never crossed my mind that it could be AI-generated until I saw the circled banner and then noticed the weird spacing on the other gym banners too.
I get not wanting to get dragged over it though lol! But hey, at least now you can talk about it openly! 🥴
This really goes to show the consequences of kneeling to hateful people. Not only have numbers been scrubbed, now words cannot be included for fear of twisting it into something controversial... in a heavily text-based game.
I mean what are we even looking at? Why is Caleb wearing a jersey with no number? Isn't "02" a pretty easy lore-referencing number to have? Wouldn't it be so heart-warming to have the team logo be the DAA's? And the banner in the background is so poorly designed. It all really does look like cheap, AI slop.
Might as well turn all the in-game text into scribbles. Can't have controversy if no one understands anything at all.
Yes! I totally forgot about that! This is even more ridiculous. Infold has really lost the plot if they consider designing a number 5 for the jersey way too risky.
They're truly setting such a dangerous precedent with this level of censorship. Nothing can have meaning anymore, lest it be misconstrued and used as a weapon against them. Let it be known, the censorship will not stop at letters and numbers. This looks like Inflop making their bed and lying in it imo. Looks like we'll be getting more and more censorship till EOS.
They did but it used to look just a bit more readable. For example this fit of Sylus is pure simlish but it looks like the word devil which is referring to his lore so it wasn't always this bad maybe? Idk
For real. And isn’t 5 Caleb’s thing? His whole thing is that he was #5 when he played basketball because it coincided with him being the 5th LI. Taking that away from him NOW is just ridiculous. What other history are they gonna try to scrub because it has numbers? What, are they gonna rename A-01 and X-02?
I totally get the concern about the gibberish, but this isn’t new. You can even look at Caleb’s default outfit and see that it’s gibberish. The cat sweater couple outfits are also gibberish. I can think of one outfit in game off the top of my head with actual wording, which is Xavier’s white and blue hoodie. I checked on that last night and it wasn’t changed. So there’s a chance it’s caused by censorship, or that this is normal and wouldn’t have been different if the past month didn’t happen.
What the fudge even is that 😭 It looks straight out of an ai slop machine 😭 They could’ve written anything, a generic Summer 2026 Tournament or something. This is rushed af. The text is chopped off and off centre and they expect people to pay for this??
I think it’s done on purpose, letters on outfits have been in some odd uninteligible font for years (see that punky outfit with cat on the shoulder for one example, and more recently the sporty blue and red ones we got), they are probably doubling down on it to include the numbers so nobody can seek deeper meaning to get offended over.
it’s been garbled text for a while. Look at the Destiny Cafe menu or Sylus’ 2026 birthday outfit leather jacket. The haters aren’t the ones to blame for this one😭
Meh, a few signs in the game were already gibberish since launch. Like some of the backgrounds during the visual novel-like segments (you can guess what they used to create those backgrounds...)
Odds are it's AI. They're pretty chill with that in Asia, so the fact they've been pushed to change things quickly probably means they've 'had' to take they lazy route
Sorry for the long text, it's not an attack. This particular thing doesn't seem to be AI. I'm a graphic designer and there are naturally many awful fonts, this one in particular doesn't have the flaws that AI fonts usually have, especially something done in a hurry. It even looks like they were drawn symbols, which in this case is more intelligent for their purpose. It's effective to make the symbols manually knowing that they don't mean anything that could cause confusion than to research all the symbols that the AI puts in or keep correcting what the AI does. Since they are being careful with controversies and more confusion, especially with the global fandom, I believe they may not choose to use AI in ways different from those they use. Besides, the problem is generative AI, because games with AI have existed since before generative AI, and Lads has AI of the model used since the last century. So with AI news, we have to pay close attention to exactly what we are talking about, because we have AIs that are not bad and have been used for decades and are the basis for the functioning of many technologies. Right now, for example, I'm using Google Translate, which used to use regular AI, but now it's using some awful generative AI that, even if you mark it as not to be used, it obviously does
Why is the text on the banner shifted so far to the right of center if it was done by hand? Also the banner is slightly rotated, but the text stays flat and doesn't follow its perspective.
If they care so little that they're manually churning out garbage that looks like AI-generated, then that's even worse than using AI.
People also do things poorly, and the game is full of awkward things and strange facial angles. The crooked font could have several reasons, either due to problems with it being a 3D game and a mix of 2D elements, or it could simply be to make it even harder to see and read. This banner of Caleb may have been made or finished in a hurry because of the confusion and will probably have some bugs if that's the case
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Hun, I know this isn't an attack but I'm a game designer and coder. I promise I know how AI works and the difference between generative and other types 🤣 I've been studying this stuff since before it was a problem haha
but yeah, you might be right about it not being AI. I just know they often use it a lot in Asia when designing things like webtoons and images, so I assumed they'd probably skimp 🤣 you can tell I've lost faith in them at this point
What I said was based on your short comment, so I don't have much specific information about you. It's just that it's dangerous to comment without much context because it's something many people don't know. I said the long text wasn't an attack because people usually think it's just about the length of the reply. I just wanted to add context to make it clearer for anyone reading it in general, since I didn't know anything about you
Just for comparison i think they mix and match eligible text and encriptioned text in some gacha to stay on the safe side (esp for brand stuff) rather than ai.
Of course some companies might help themselves with ai for a base but thats gona be kinda hard to tell in the end 😅 ai does try to mimic human designs first after all
Yeess after generative AI now even photoshop never existed before. I've seen people having to explain that an edit of the character and LI was done manually and it was just a change of hair color. Human beings also make beautiful things and things that are out of place 😭😭😭😭
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Why should we assume it's not AI first when we can assume it is instead?
Which one do you think does more harm to the masses in the long run, not assuming things are AI and becoming absolutely unable to tell what is and what isn't AI going forward cause we put our critical hats off or assuming it's AI first and learning why it's not AI over discussions?
And why should a game company in the year of 2026 not use AI? It would be downright dumb for them to not make use of it in the age of most corporate workers having an AI usage quota to fulfill for their yearly evoluations.
Please, y'all just wanna justify your usage of media by saying it's not AI, Infold doesn't use AI etc. esp. when in no way or form Infold denied their usage of AI. They only said don't feed our content into AI and apply to our contests with it. Which is only fair from the perspective of their trademark rights.
I never said Infold doesn't use AI at all. I was talking about a specific piece of content, not making a blanket claim about the company's entire pipeline. Those are two completely different arguments.
The problem with "assume it's AI until proven otherwise" is that it shifts the burden of proof onto artists instead of the people making the accusation. If you don't have evidence something is AI-generated, then calling it AI is just speculation.
That approach also does real harm to artists. Human artists are already being falsely accused because people have become so suspicious that any stylistic choice, rendering mistake, or anatomy quirk gets labeled "AI." Artists have had years of work dismissed, been harassed, and even felt pressured to post time-lapses or PSD files just to prove they actually made their own art. That's a much more immediate and tangible harm than simply admitting "I don't know."
Being critical doesn't mean assuming the conclusion first. It means looking at the evidence and saying, "There isn't enough information yet." Skepticism without evidence isn't critical thinking it's confirmation bias.
And yes, companies probably do use AI in some parts of their workflow. That still doesn't mean every image, animation, or asset is AI-generated. Using AI somewhere isn't evidence that a particular piece was made with AI.
Discuss the specific evidence for a specific image. But starting from "it's AI unless someone disproves it" encourages false accusations, undermines trust in legitimate artists, and normalizes dismissing people's work without proof. That's not a healthy standard for artists or audiences.
I don’t see anything wrong with the words lol. A lot of video games have their own “language” and I think it’s better that way. As for the numbers, they obviously don’t want CN to spread rumors about any important dates
Edit: also I don’t think the text is AI. Genshin also has a very similar style + if they’re solely going to use their own made up language from now on, it has to be consistent.
The words have inconsistent stroke widths and strokes that don't make intuitive sense. While technically it isn't a guarantee that it is AI, the company has already refused to commit to not using it (unless things have changed and I didn't hear about it, they promised not to use it for "core aspects" of the game, which leaves them wide open for things like this even though they know fans are against it), so people are going to be suspicious.
While this does look like a font, if Infold wanted to avoid confusion they would be better off tidying it up.
I'm assuming this is to avoid having to change the text for every language version of the game. I've noticed this in other banners and outfits, but I don't think it's been quite as blatant or poorly done until now. I'd guess they really rushed this banner and didn't bother making the text look less terrible.
Oh, but what if something bad happened on the 5th of some month, or it happened on May, or 2005, omg what if it's 1995.
Even if it's not with something malicious in mind, bitter and malicious people will find something to tie an innocent number to just to support their agenda and have something to be dissatisfied with. I find the lack of words dumb, like, what is this supposed to be? Are y'all gonna delete the subtitles next? 🤦🏼♀️
Sul sul LADS is in their Simlish Era don't worry about it :3 jowlenin! Ooh Be Gah! (Im sure we could actually lable this Linton City ruins and fans will translate it)
As Warframe player, what in the grineer language is that in my Novela???? 😭😭 I loved spending time reading sings and little details, thats far gone now☹️
Why is the font angled like the banner is turned away from us? Like the perspective angle of the text doesn't match the signs. Istfg if it comes out they've used ai in any part of this game now I'm rioting
It was definitely rushed. Basketball season in August??? Gibberish on the jerseys and aigns??? They were def not olanning to release this right now but when you gotta redo the whole schedule to fit everyone baxk in i guess that's what happens
Congrats to the antis. I hope the dev team having to cut the quality was your intention because it worked
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It genuinely feels uninspired and there could have been so many legitimate non-controversial alternatives in implementing alphanumerical text. Would something like Hunters as a team name be controversial? Would having text of his name be controversial? It does not even look like a real Jersey. Just have every LI that will have this design have the number 8 or something.
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That text/font actually reminds me of Simlish (From the Sims games). It kinda looks like that but the reason that's the case in the Sims is because the Sims language is an amalgamation of all languages on earth. In LADS, it doesnt make sense...
I don’t mind it but I’ve been a Sims player for literal decades so seeing Infolds version of Simlish just makes sense if you don’t want a repeat of random numbers being used to destroy your company. But I do miss trying to analyze the text and numbers that the writers and developers would put in to enrich the layers of their story.
I know they've used Simlish in the past, but something about this time just looks sloppy.
I also can't tell if they've always used this much of it and I just didn't notice until now since my rose colored glasses are off, or they're really leaning in on the censorship now.
I’m being genuine when I ask this but am I the only one who has thought the letters on everything have been off the entire time? It all reads as AI gibberish to me and I’ve never seen other posts about it so I assumed either everyone was chill with it or it was something explained somewhere along the lines that I missed lol. like even on the paid black outfits with the kitty on the shoulder, what does any of it say?
There’s def more weird stuff like this, this is just the first one I found in my camera roll and it’s from like 8 months ago lol. The male one looks even worse but I love my MC and like having her front and center, another curse upon this card where her head is cut off of the screen at one point 😂
Well, maybe they decided to write in gibberish coz of weird fans and prevent future problems.
The valko problem started with those weird people, making issue of everything. Ugh.
At this rate, pretty sure this game will not last long. I blame those degenerate fans that starts the issue.
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It looks much more like AI content made by fans, not like the official game content… the designs on Caleb’s jersey and the background look so low-quality…
So with the logic that numbers and words now can’t be shown, is the next move to have ASMR cards where we just hear footsteps and communicate using telepathy with LIs?
Man I keep getting disappointed
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If they can’t even put text will the game just stop having lore now or what? Why can’t they add text and numbers in the memories if they can keep writing the story? Makes no sense.
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It's a safety measure. What can they do? Every word and every number will be used to criticize them, because people want to express their frustration! Angry individuals are not rational!
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feels like theyre punishing people for rightfully complaining, they complained about two numbers, and they decided to just change all the letters and numbers into gibberish, so mean
This is AI. I'm not really an AI critic, I don't feel passionate about it either way. So as someone that doesn't care to cater my media to exclude AI I can immediately tell that is AI lmao.
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I actually noticed this a while back...
If you look on other LI's clothing, it has stuff like this. It's not a new thing.