Elaboration by game director:>The AI voice generation tools we use on Stellaris ensure that the voice actors that signed up and built the models receive royalties for every line we create. Ethical use of AI technology is very important to us - we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves.>We use image generation tools to make basic sketches of things the System Designers and I are thinking of since I very much suck at art, but am pretty decent at getting computers to do what we're thinking. (Making tokens for 4,000 Pathfinder characters that I'll never play paid off!) The artists then take our ideas and might or might not use them as inspiration to make final assets. None of those design images go into the game.>We used some text generative AIs for "ideation of content", as we said - basically content designers can break writer's block by asking an AI "hey, what are 40 different things I can find in a mysterious box" and see if any of them spark any inspiration. None of the results or generated text go into the game.
I don't care about AI use in my games but VAs should get less, not more.
I don't care as long as it's fun to play. It's a game about space travel in the future when everyone has AI
>>729081727Explains why the last two race packs were so fucking unoriginal and boring. They didn't even bother to give Infernal a fucking machine version, something they've been doing since the first one.Thank god did I never bother to buy a single DLC and just pirated that shit.
>>729081727Stellaris is one of the most blandest, if not the blandest, game I have ever played.Everything regarding its lore and fluff is the most insipid shit in the world. Made me fully realize you can't build a game on just mechanics (not that they are any good).I just don't understand what level of deep autism you have to suffer from to enjoy it.
Small indie company, please understand. I mean, they're practically going broke with how they keep giving people polished, skillfully crafted unique experiences sold to people at low prices without any microtransactions or DLC content. AI was made for small indie creators like this.
stellaris is so fucking impressive how it can get infinitely more worse with each passing year.
>>729081727>we used AI, but... ethically!Why the fuck would I give a damn about ethics? AI slop is only acceptable if it makes your game cheaper for me to buy.
>>729082090>>729082185I fucking hate the game but I still end up playing it sometimes in the desperated hopes the next update finally made it fun. Only to end up somehow wasting multiple hours without realizing and having a panic over it. The worst part is the game doesnt even leave a lasting impact on me. I cant even remember the most recent game and if anything interesting happened in it.
>>729082273Silly, it was supposed to make games cheaper for THEM, not for pesky little gamers like you.
>>729081727No indie award for them.
>>729082342>quality goes down, price doesn'tGuess I'll just play my old games then.
>>729082583I mean this has been happening even before the AI craze
>>729082342E33 was $50
>>729081727Pretty reasonable usage of AI, if I can make shit posts with it, why can't someone else use it as an idea backboard
>>729081727This is normal use of any techProblem you Sora proomters have is that you imagine that devs sit in-front of some more powerful proomter that you have publicly and they type:>claire 33, JRPG with baguettes, redhead nice ass, generic millennial storyAnd voila, you have whole game done with 0 indie awards
>>729081727>AI is going to filter leftists from gamingwtf I love AI now
>>729081727>the company known for stealing mods to put into their paid DLC are bad peoplewow
>>729081727based. this is it, nigga. this is it. this is the moment we realize everyone is pro-AI except for a very loud-mouthed minority, both in number and in skin color.
>>729083934AI-sama.
Don't know about Stellaris, but Crusader Kings definitely needs some AI to spice up playthroughs
>>729084180Of course million dollar companies are pro AI nigga. But not to make games cheaper. Not for you, at least.
>>729084294didn't ask for it. The pro-AI troons prop up that talking point for some reason.
>>729081727Good to know, I'll be sure to never buy it.Fuck AI slop.
>>729084362>pro-AI troonsAny troon is 90% likely to be anti-AI, you dumb homo.
>>729081727What's the difference? Stellaris has always looked AI generated
>>729084448make sense because the pro AI fags are brown or kikes/billionaires
>>729081727Into the trash they go. Death to all AI jeet using videogame studios.
>>729081727those who are upset about AI simply didn't know that creativity in entertainment media is long dead. it has been turned into an assembly line process, like everything else. "artists" simply take two existing things, slap them together and call it art. basically forced art, or uninspired slop that has nothing to do with true creativity, but is more reliable since you don't have to risk time and money for the artist to come up with something original. AI is just doing the same thing, but a lot more efficient
>NOOOO,KEEP PAYING US A QUARTER MILLION PER YEAR, YOU'RE LITERALLY KILLING BLACK FOLX!!
>>729081837I really can't wait until someone just bites the bullet and does fully gen AI voices, even just for NPCs in something like a major RPG. Just to get it out there and let the faggots argue about it post-hoc.Paul Ganus and Olev Aleksander voiced like 500 guards in skyrim, with AI each of those guards could have a unique voice and voice generation is good enough at this point that I don't give a shit if its AI or not, especially for something like NPCs.>b-b-b-but you don't need voice acting at all! games should be text only!I do, fuck you.
>>729081727Shit game made for subhuman normies Imagine not making good AI for the enemy empiresDropped that piece of shit to never return Sad that there's no other good stuff
>>729081727YOURE LITERALLY KILLING TRANS FOLX
>>729082339>The worst part is the game doesnt even leave a lasting impact on me. I cant even remember the most recent game and if anything interesting happened in it.It did But only when I made my own custom mods to make ww1 but in space and similar stuff
>>729081727good? i don't understand why people are sperging out when people use AI properly as a tool. that's not going to stop happening ever
>>729081837VA is one of those things where it could really enhance the game but instead we got cancer filled theater kid drama and a massive money sink.
>>729081727didn't they say they used AI for machine age ages agothis is very old news if I'm not mistaken
Ok, so why isn't it cheaper?
>>729085536The base game is 40 bucks and usually goes on sale
>>729083934>>729084180>>729084362>>729084448>>729084635>account located in India
This is an incredibly retarded witch hunt.
>>729085868at least we can take solace that it's predominantly (you) farming when it's on 4chan
>>729081727>>The AI voice generation tools we use on Stellaris ensure that the voice actors that signed up and built the models receive royalties for every line we createI unironically think that anti-ai hatred would vanish instantly if this is how it worked every time
I have nearly 100 mods running while I play Stellaris. Really says something about the game.
>>729086505I think it's telling about the playerbase that they'll make steam reviews borderline useless for any part of Stellaris complaining about multiplayer desync without fail while they have dozens if not hundreds of active and possibly out of date mods
>>729086505I'm still waiting on Evolved before I play it again.
>>729081727I've had the impression they've been using AI for a long time now, some portraits are horrendous and don't fit the art that the game had. Though at this point I think they've must rotated two or three art styles for portraits at this point.
>>729084635real doro wouldn't spout such shit like you do, faker
>>729085868you won't be saying that after everything being released becomes the same thing, more than the unreal engine and unity asset memes already complain about. using gen ai for inspiration is admittance that you never had an idea to base your creativity off of in the first place and it's extrmeley restrictive.
>>729081727hoi4 was exposed for using blatant AI months ago dude
>>729084635massive pajeet projectionyou simply don't understand the concept of creativity, all you can imagine is theft and plagiarism
>>729082031I feel this way about pic related, the whole damn series
Hating AI for ethics is tired. I hate AI because involving machine generated slop anywhere in the creative process makes your shit less interesting than all natural human creativity
>>729085762But enough about yourself.
>>729082031>Stellaris is one of the most blandest, if not the blandest, game I have ever played.>Everything regarding its lore and fluff is the most insipid shit in the world.wut. you can make your own civs and their lore.
>>729092332All the creativity of providing your with a blank piece of paper and a pen
>>729081727>hahaha ITS MINOR>MINOR >PLEASE TELL US IDEAS MACHINE MAN WE ARE SOULESS AND HAVE NO ORIGINAL IDEASLMAO
AI voice acting where the person used as the base gets royalties after the fact is perfectly fine. Don't get the issue.
>>729081727>use ai >marxists start killing themselvesit's too easy
>>729082583>quality goes downIt doesn't though?
>>729094209how it doesnt?10 years ago
>>729093660If it sounds bad.
>>7290942092025>muh stylegtfo
>>729081727>AI voicesI don't think anyone cares about this one unless they stole someone's voice
>>729081727>Use AI to generate voicelines for AI antagonistOK, that's fitting.
Anyone who doesn't disclose ai usage on their store page and gets caught using it anyway should get their game refunded no questions asked and all the costs are on the developer
>>729084635>things are bad so it's good when they get worseEvery fucking AI thread.
>>729081727That's fine. I plan to download all future Paradox releases for free to train my game development AI anyway.
