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Harvey Randall

'Spitting in the face of your international audience': The Alters cops to using generative AI for background text and translations, despite not disclosing such on Steam

The Alters.

The Alters has been enjoying a solid reception from fans and critics alike—we even gave it a sterling 90% in our The Alters review—unfortunately, that shine's been tarnished by some recent player discoveries: The Alters almost definitely used AI to generate its background text and translations.

As spotted by Eurogamer, several screenshots have emerged of 11 Bit Studios getting caught with its deep-learning pants down, such as the following screenshot of some background text that still has the words "Sure, here's a revised version focusing purely on scientific and astronomical data", a telltale sign the text was run through a LLM at some point.

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