What really pisses me off here is that this is the butchery of an actual art piece. They had a fantastic work but they wanted to shift the characters around a little for box art and had an AI do it.

Yep, that's slop alright.

One big tell to me is how highlights always get slightly brighter just before hitting the outline. It's kind of a similar effect to when you turn the sharpness filter up on a TV, and it looks terrible. And yeah, there are a ton of strange noisy messy shape salad parts that are a defining characteristic of "AI" "art".

We need to get a handle on this before it becomes more difficult to distinguish. Companies have demonstrated they will sneak AI assets into development without a second thought.

How many eyebrows does a guy need ffs

Could someone repost the image here? I cannot access it on X.

Kingdom Hearts has been slop from day 1. Now it's also artificial in nature.

This is why i think i won't ever play games after 2019 ish. Or really listen to any music made after that either unless I really know the artist (I prefer most music from 70s to 90s anyway save for a select few) I cannot trust them and will not give in to slop.

Oofta, these companies just don't fucking learn. Of course, Square Enix already wants to use LLMs for QA, it doesn't surprise me that they'd try to create character assets using slop generators. Gross behavior, a reason why I haven't been buying any of the recent Square Enix games in fact. Their commitment to slop is too high and I wish they'd pay for it dearly.

Nintendo don't use generative LLMs because of the copyright issues. Disney are even more lawyertastic than Nintendo. Hopefully a small batallion of Disney's lawyers will show up at Squenix's offices and tell them to cut that crap out.

No surprise after the 3rd quality.