Now that its popular Simpsons-themed mini-season is over, Fortnite Chapter 7 is live, complete with Kill Bill collaboration and a censored version of the Pussy Wagon. That's not what players are talking about, though. What's got them up in arms now is that some of the new art for this chapter looks AI-generated.
The smoking gun is a poster of a yeti relaxing in a hammock, feet dangling over the edge, which clearly has nine toes. After all this time, AI art still struggles with hands and feet. I mean, I can't draw hands and feet either, but at least I know not to draw four toes on one foot and five toes on the other.
Other billboards and paintings are being called out for having the smeary look common to a lot of AI art, and an anime-style spray of Marty McFly from Back to the Future looks enough like the Studio Ghibli AI knockoffs that briefly became the internet's favorite thing it's been looked askance at as well. (It's the same art style as the calling cards from Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.)
"IIRC, the Marty McFly spray is part of the Battle Pass, so you're paying for that", says one forum user. "Between this and the next season which is rumored to be Harry Potter themed, I'm done with this game."
Sweeney's recent comments on the supposed inevitability of AI in every part of game production have brought him into the crosshairs on Reddit. "The real question I'm surprised nobody has thrown at Sweeney", one user asks, "if AI can do a lot of the hard work, why don't we just replace him with AI?"
