I will never stop banging the drum that AI plagiarizes by default.
You can literally never be sure it isn't ripping something else off when you generate an image, asset, or video.
This is from Zelda if you didn't know.
Now that we have confirmation I’d like to politely ask everyone to please do try to spread the word to the overall community and reach out to IdV via comments/email/posts on rednote or Weibo to correct this and have it removed/replaced! 🫶 Let’s make this right!
Now that a statement has been made regarding the collab skin, I want to finally say something.
My best friend was the one who told me before that a lot of the freelance artists who work for Netease are under a lot of pressure and time constraints.
I have reached out to the artist and he has confirmed without a doubt he wasn’t contacted for the use of his painting
Last screenshot is showing I have his permission to post these screenshots
China ya refrigera centros de datos con agua marina. Qué bonito. Si todos hacemos lo mismo los océanos se calentarán tanto que cambiarán la meteorología de todo el planeta.
No necesitamos tantos centros de datos. Hay que planificar.
Please remember that although this statement is hypocritical it proves that they’re willing to listen and change. It’s because they’re being so hypocritical that we should continue to pressure them to do so!
because they’re clearly scared about legal action being taken, could we start basing our messages off false advertising? Nowhere do they state they use GenAi despite using it, and also the whitewashed model for Patricia vs Her actual art on Valentine’s day… ( ᵒ̴̶̷̥́ _ᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀ )
While I’m glad for the cosplayer to help us get a statement and it’s clear out. I will personally never forget if they can make a statement so easily addressing they didn’t use the Ai for this collab they can do the same for past gen ai usage claims.
Concept art is what the foundations of your game's art is being built on. Using AI to make that is still using AI art, stop excusing companies for doing it
Ai
1) wastes tons of water every day
2) ruins peoples lives (who live near data centers)
3) steals jobs
4) steals identities/creates deepfakes
5) Affects your mental health (ai psychosis)
6) spreads misinformation
I could go on… but after all this you still chose to use it?
This will be another reminder that black washing does not exist. White washing was done in order to hide and shame black features and their portrayal in media. A black edit of a character isnt done to “shame white features” its done to fill a void for representation.
Reminder to not let the things Netease did to be forgotten. Don't forget their AI usage, their erasing of poc features and whitewashing, and neither what they did to that cosplayer. They're thieves and we need to show them the consequences of it.
#IDV_NO_AI#IDVBOYCOTT
The fact that the Japanese account specifically chose to clarify that this promotional collaboration didn't use generative AI, Is the one thread of hope I have remaining that this shit wont touch the next Sonic game