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/AncientAd4996]

Back when it first came out there was a whole thing with 1 of its fighting cutscenes too where the movements don't just seem jank, it legitimately looked like an AI was the choreographer

[u/Miyaserie → u/AncientAd4996]

Yeah.

[u/TunderBlood → u/Miyaserie]

Yeah people really like making shit up if they legit think this is entirely ai they need to get themselves checked 

[u/Miyaserie → u/TunderBlood]

It could also be the product of incompetence. The brief gif has 4 attacks that should connect but don't. The characters slice eachother to smithereens with reckless abandon.

GenAI is able to animate such scenes, especially when you feed it 3D assets. The end result will often not be noticeably AI, unless you look at details such as the fight choreography there.