Palworld is Steam's latest hit game having scooped over two million users in 24 hours, selling 5 million copies in three days, and this despite social media users came out to criticise the game for 'plagiarising' creature designs from Pokémon and for accusations of AI use. Neither of which have been proved. But the suggestion of AI use hasn't harmed player rates or reviews, so are we in a new era of AI-washing?
The Japanese developer Pocketpair released Palword into early access on PC and Xbox on Friday and immediately began burning Epic Games' servers; the survival game, a kind of 'Pokémon with guns', is on track to be the next trending game, up there with Fortnite. So does it matter if Palworld's developer Poketpair has a dark cloud of AI use lingering above it? It seems not, as success and popularity can 'AI-wash' a game, apparently.
