Blizzard says it is investigating allegations that pixel art designs for new Hearthstone skins slated to be released as part of the The Great Dark Beyond expansion were created with generative AI.
The skins haven't been released at this point, or even formally announced, but were datamined earlier this month as part of patch 31.0. The initial reaction was quite positive—they do look pretty cool at first blush, after all—but on October 26, 1000_toasters posted a thread on X laying out their belief that the images were AI generated.
