When the end of year holiday season approaches, manufacturers like to take stock of the previous months on social networks. Microsoft did not escape the trend and posted a few days ago a simple message on the account X/Twitter ofID@Xbox to ask gamers what their favorite indie games of the year were.
A very classic post, but the accompanying image made fans jump: the illustration was clearly generated by artificial intelligence, a very fashionable and constantly evolving technology, to the detriment of artists. This is what made players and even members of the profession react, like the independent developer Rami Ismail which states:
I can’t believe ID@Xbox spent years working really hard, building goodwill, funding games, building trust – a real connection with creative, stubborn, idealistic indie developers – and then posting horrible AI artwork to only make a few dollars. Pay for art, please.
Yes, hiring an artist to create a work would have only cost a few hundred dollars Microsoft, a grain of sand in his budget. But ID@Xbox opted for AI, the rendering is not very successful. Faced with player reactions, the message was quickly deleted (but immortalized by a screenshot), the debate on art generated by artificial intelligence is relaunched.
Well, the original message is mainly there to remind us that Microsoft offers a bunch of indie games in its catalog Game Passyou can subscribe to the version Ultimate from €13.99 on Amazon, Cdiscount And there Fnac.
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