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/3xchar]

And ppl pay money for this bs

[u/yuuki_w → u/3xchar]

people pay money for most game and let me tell you a secret almost all devs use AI nowadays. To Stop buying all games now.

[u/ClothesOk2310 → u/yuuki_w]

There's a difference between using AI in the process and it being in the final product

[u/FoRiZon3 → u/ClothesOk2310]

Amd using AI for chatbots and team composition VS using it for arts and creatives.

[u/3xchar → u/yuuki_w]

Not mine lol but you do you man idc pay them more after seeing this. It's your money

[u/yuuki_w → u/3xchar]

"not mine" unless you play mostly smaller games or older ones that is highly unlikely. But keep believing what you want.

[u/ArchonRevan → u/yuuki_w]

Its cute you still think this prolly still think Santa is real too

[u/yuuki_w → u/ArchonRevan]

You are naive if you think big studio don't use ai.

[u/Apart-Performer-331 → u/yuuki_w]

There’s a difference between using AI but still putting effort to make it not obvious and doing whatever this is and not even being able to hide the watermark. It’s sloppy

[u/bluehairtye → u/yuuki_w]

People have been using AI since the dawn of game development. But only now would game companies dare put their slop in-game and sell it to you.