NTE Developers forget to remove AI watermark

[u/YourLilyInaPot]

In their newest update 1.3, a new area has been added, along with it came new fishing spots and fishing catches.

One of their fishing assets contains the watermark from Doubao (豆包) a popular Chinese AI chatbot assistant with image and video generation powered by Seedance (Bytedance).

This has sparked heated debate amongst Chinese players, while not hardly criticizing the use of AI they do make fun of the fact that Doubao’s AI image generation watermark comes from the free version of the app, with many comments calling them cheap, criticizing their carelessness and questioning the real reason behind their low production costs.

To quote one of the comments:

“AI is fine, but using Doubao is just funny. The free version no less.”

Other comments talk about AI across the Chinese gaming industry, how other companies such as Hoyoverse and Netease have self-developed AI tools while Hotta Studio uses an AI chatbot assistant.

To put it on perspective, asking Doubao to generate an image is very similar to asking ChatGPT.

Quote from another comment:

“Doubao Doubao, help me generate a game asset of a purple crowned seahorse.”

I’ll add that the Chinese community already knew about the extent of AI usage in Neverness to Everness, though they weren’t expecting to see Doubao of all things.

As of this post, the watermark has been removed with the asset remaining the same otherwise.

[u/OrangeIllustrious499]

Which is probably the case since I saw some global NTE fans saying shits like: "This is why Im glad we have a 1 week delay, so devs and chinese players can spot bugs and optimize the game better"

Never have I seen such a fanbase that has people blatantly defends such horrific QC. Let's see how they like that when CN peeps say goodbye to the game due to feeling mistreated and global will have to taste the bugs themselves.

[u/Ravonaa → u/OrangeIllustrious499]

This is assuming they haven't already lmao. From an initial milquetoast reception on CN from the quality, you can definitely see they dislike being treated as open beta testers every single patch. Their banners just don't do well in China - even when mobile is a secondary market, it just doesn't paint a good picture overall.

This recent "main push" being embroiled in a cuckoldry scandal + a myriad of 1.3 launch bugs, CN is just not happy.

[u/jayinsane5050 → u/Ravonaa]

Not even the summer skins save it I guess

[u/Particular_Web3215 → u/Ravonaa]

with the cuckoldry drama, some CN NTE fans started using hoyo characters that got slapped/have traumatic backstory in an attempt to divert attention (promeia. insert Hi3 character, wanderer). or people relentlessly make fun of the bugs and AI generated storylines.

[u/jayinsane5050 → u/Particular_Web3215]

Wtf man .. I doubt even NTE bikini skins cam save this verison -_-

[u/RaiteiXIII → u/jayinsane5050]

but the game doesnt need "saving" tho? lol

[u/Typical-Opposite-989 → u/OrangeIllustrious499]

It's no surprise the game exploded with the "NTR" issue; in my opinion, it was just an excuse. The Chinese community was a pressure cooker about to explode at any moment because of the bugs in every patch.

[u/jayinsane5050 → u/Typical-Opposite-989]

what NTR???

[u/RaiteiXIII → u/OrangeIllustrious499]

>Never have I seen such a fanbase that has people blatantly defends such horrific QC
HAHAHA imagine saying this loudly in a "gacha" game sub LMAO, this is literally all "gacha gaming fanbase" lol