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Dave Rapoza responds to Wizards' denial of their claimed use of AI for marketing materials: https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1743014711820476536

Edit: context: https://mtgzone.com/post/376725

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Context? That twitter link isn’t loading for me

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

I found this on Archive.org.

Unfortunately, a certain individual broke Twitter so the full thread cannot be viewed without being signed in; but I think this does help add some perspective to the original tweet.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Wow looks like they deleted that tweet. The post here from yesterday has some screenshots (thanks @MysticKetchup): https://mtgzone.com/post/376725

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

that post is about a train stop called slutstation

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

lol I thought you were joking -- here is the correct post https://mtgzone.com/post/376725

@[email protected] you forgot a digit in your link

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Haha that’s fantastic, trying to comment on mobile and I guess the last number got deleted

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Outstanding

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

That link's not working for me, but from what I could find the drama is about this image, right?

I'm not going to claim to be an expert in generated images, but I don't see any particular signs pointing toward it being faked. It's a bit "dreamy" looking, but that's not exclusive to generated images by any means.

Also, I'm inclined to believe their denial here. I don't see any particular reason for wotc to so strongly pledge to not use these methods and then immediately use it for advertising. And even it being somehow unintentional seems like a stretch. The inner (and outer) communication at wotc has never been great, but this would be excessive even for them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I should clarify, it doesn't work clicking through on my instance on the app I'm using. Copying it over to a browser worked, but I just googled it myself before to be efficient.

Thanks, though. I can see what people are focusing on now. Still not sure one way or the other, tbh.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If the indicator dial doesn’t sell you, then you really don’t understand the ways AI screws up images

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The vacuum tubes really did it for me, those filaments are going all over the place

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Luckily they have admitted it!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

They already admitted it was actually made with AI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

With that said though, while Hasbro is fucking evil it would be weird for them to deny they were using AI at first until now. I wonder if one of their partners sort of fucked them over and actually used AI without telling them. Its possible they were 100% for the AI art since the start but think due to how large wizard of the coast is and with the likely usage of sub contractors it may not be on them fully with that said though, they probably should have double checked the images for any of those signs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Link? I don't use Twitter.

Edit: https://lemmy.world/post/10447290 was posted here with a screen cap

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

it would be easy for them to show proof its not generated by providing work files for the scene, so somethings not adding up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Wizard could easily say the name of the artist who draw the picture, isn't like they don't credits them everytime. That way it could be easy to see if that artist have consistency on that style and the mysterious artifacts everyone is using as evidence of AI.