James Pond, a unusual platformer sequence from the early Nineties, is getting a giant re-release for its thirty fifth anniversary. The James Pond Legacy: The Pond Is Not Sufficient collects 12 video games from throughout the Amiga, Genesis, Commodore 64, and SNES, and updates them for present platforms. System 3 Software program is dealing with the gathering and has made a trailer to announce the—the fuck?
Typically genAI slop in a recreation is delicate, requiring eagle eyes and fine-toothed combs to identify and determine. Different instances it simply hits you over the pinnacle with a fucking baseball bat, screaming all of the whereas. Like, what occurred right here if not the genAI hand goblins placing but once more?
Each 3D render within the trailer is permeated with the stink of genAI’s telltale matte end that evens every little thing right into a boring same-ishness. Even the music used within the trailer is suspected of being genAI. The errors had been so obviously apparent, System 3 quickly shut down feedback on the video to cease the flood of slop accusations.
System 3 later made an announcement within the feedback part of the trailer. “To be completely clear, no generative AI was used within the James Pond Legacy trailer or character paintings,” System 3 wrote. The remark additionally pointed to a blog post on System 3’s website that it says “reveals the painstaking, human-led course of behind the transformation of an authentic James Pond character from retro pixels into a contemporary 3D creation.” Let’s have a look. Oh no.
The weblog goes into element about how the Bovine Bomber character was remodeled from its authentic pixel artwork to a 3D render, affirming {that a} human was concerned within the course of each step of the way in which. It doesn’t look like anyone on Reddit or elsewhere is shopping for it, although, mentioning how, amongst many different errors, the “manually redrawn” cow has had its apparent milk-jug arm cannon changed into a generic Mega Man-esque blaster.
As soon as the remark part beneath the trailer was reopened, the flood of genAI accusations continued, this time with extra anger at System 3 for considering its clarification could be sufficient to show no genAI was used, forgetting that a few of us have eyes that may see.