The latest gaming controversy surrounding AI art is Blizzard Entertainment’s filing of a patent for “machine learning-based 2D structured image generation.”
The patent has since been taken out of context, with many equating Diablo 4’s developers with using AI to generate art completely from scratch. We have received complaints. However, as Blizzard Entertainment president Mike Ybarra explained, that’s not really the case.
“Blizzard will always strive to maintain Blizzard quality. “Our approach at Blizzard is to use machine learning and AI in an additive and empathetic way, allowing talented teams to deliver the highest quality creative thinking and tasks,” said Ybarra. It’s about allowing us to spend more time on.”
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Hearthstone design manager Brendan Sewell also criticized the article for not linking while clarifying what the AI is being used for. actual patent by Blizzard. Rather than creating the art itself, as the patent suggests, it uses AI to apply styles from the image to create different textures. This is quite different from AI art created by prompts. So the whole concern seems misplaced in this case.
“I think a lot of this problem would go away if the patents that were the content of the article were actually linked to the article. This is not AI art,” Seqell said. “The ethical considerations of this are pretty much the same as the ethics of Photoshop filters. Variant he is a tool to save time creating textures.”
