GOG now using AI generated images on their store(www.gamingonlinux.com)

4 pointsby healsdata3 hours ago2 comments

JohnFen3 hours ago
Damn, I am seriously disappointed in GOG about this. I love them and hope this isn't the start of a larger effort. I want them to keep being a company that I want to be a customer of.
- ticulatedspline2 hours ago
  eh. the graphic isn't awful. That SNES is a bit melty but chances are I woulden't have even noticed given the level of scrutiny i would have given it. Frankly I've seen worse photoshop jobs. Had they used a better model you probably couldn't tell, and in 2 years you def won't be able to tell. Less mad about using AI but a bit disappointing they didn't at least clean that up, that's pretty lazy.
  then again it's a splash for an sale that's going to be up for like a week.
  I don't shop at GOG because they're a paragon of human-first graphic design. Given their current tenuous finances if they wanna save a bunch of money not hiring someone to do these splash screens, whatever. go for it.
  - vunderba2 hours ago
    Same - as long as they're not using AI for actual in-game screenshots then I don't have an issue with it. That being said - that is a rough image and would have taken only a few minutes improve it: (still has a few flaws but significantly improved from the original)
    https://imgur.com/a/PoEWDji
    ticulatedspline2 hours ago
    ah yeah that looks much better. they should have at least a little work on it, not a great look for the front page and had they used your version probably nobody would have noticed.
    though as I posted below some of their photoshopped banners haven't exactly been works of art:
    https://web.archive.org/web/20150426174907im_/http://static0...
    slop has been around a long time. it's just faster to make now.
  - JohnFen2 hours ago
    It's not about the quality of banner itself. It's about my concerns that this is the tip of the camel's nose.
    I'm certainly not going to stop buying from GOG over this one incident. That said, this does reduce the esteem I had held them in. Now I'll have to be on alert about them, where I didn't have to before.
    Even though it does make me think less of them, if they limit this kind of nonsense to ephemeral banner ads, I can put up with it. If it expands, though, I'll definitely be less likely to continue spending money with them.
    ticulatedspline2 hours ago
    > Now I'll have to be on alert about them,
    For what? If the UI gets absurdly ugly or becomes some horrible lovecraftian mess and is unusable, sure, don't shop there. Are you going to download every graphic they use and comb over it for signs of AI?
    like why? why does that matter?
    JohnFen2 hours ago
    > Are you going to download every graphic they use and comb over it for signs of AI?
    Certainly not. I have better uses for my time. All I'm saying is that my spidey senses will be up. It makes GOG a colder, less welcoming thing for me. It makes them more like everybody else.
    And if they really do become like everybody else, then there's little reason for me to choose them.
    ticulatedspline2 hours ago
    I think you need to assess what you're actually mad about. Like here's a graphic from 2013
    https://web.archive.org/web/20150426174907im_/http://static0...
    Like it's OK? pretty amateur, those shells on the right are all kinds of floaty. If I were trying to get a job as a graphic designer I def wouldn't have that banner in my portfolio. Honestly if you posted that today someone might call it out as AI.
    like would it have made you stop shopping at GOG? Are you mad that it's ugly or mad they didn't pay someone to make it ugly?
    reality is that's just how these kinds of things will be made from now on. It's a lot like the uproar CGI had in the movie industry, but nowadays it's like all CGI. and yeah even in big budget films like Marvel the CGI still sucks, I still prefer practical effects but it didn't stop me from going to see movies.
Steelkiwer3 hours ago
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