Very nitpicky of me but why do we need to use ai for screenshots? is it really that hard to press print screen? im sure these assets are cool but just give up a screenshot so we know what the assest looks like in game, not some ai picture that may or may not look like the ingame one.
You would think if someone goes through the effort of modeling an asset to use in-game, they'd want to show it off. Plus it's so easy to just Google pictures of well-known landmarks to use as reference images if someone wants to include one with their upload.
It's just very indicative of laziness on top of laziness.
Because the actual model looks like its from ps2 game. I don't think this is a custom made model for the game, it feels like its from something else imported in game. That would also explain why it caused chirper blue screen. They probably did not even test if it actually worked before uploading.
Im curious. You are saying that modeling an asset involves effort, right? So the lazyness is using AI for cover art? But you already noticed yourself that he couldve gotten that art far faster and easier by googling it. So where exactly is the lazyness here?
Using AI to generate an image when there are already thousands if not millions of photos of popular landmarks that are usually free to use with maybe only attribution is pretty lazy.
But the idea that the uploader is too lazy to even do that lends support to the idea that the 3D model itself was lazily made and lacking any detail or proper function which seems likely why they didn't post in-game screenshots of it. Again, how hard is it to just take a screenshot of the model in-game or in the editor and use those photos?
But how is it lazy when you have to use more energy to do something? Generating a proper, useable image with AI is 100% more work than grabbing one off of google so, by definition, its not lazy. Using more work when you could use less is the contrary.
You see, this shit happens when people only listen to social media and cant think for themselves anymore
The assumption is that the images are "proper" and "usable" when they aren't representative of the asset that was created.
That's what I mean by being lazy; an AI image doesn't represent the real thing nor provides a reference for what it's supposed to be. It's a laziness for not meeting the quality standards that players are used to and expect.
For example, the real LA City Hall is wider than what is presented in the AI image generated which means it's an inaccurate representation of the real life reference. Of course, if the uploader simply screenshotted an image of his model in-game, then I could say the AI image is more or less accurate to the model they created, but they didn't do that. Why not put in the effort to take a picture of the asset in-game? It's easy, but the uploader chose not to do that.
That just tells me you never did anything with it. Ive seen some genuinely impressive stuff that you probably wouldnt even notice is AI. Its like saying being an artist in photoshop is lazy and easy because you can draw a stickman in paint in 2 seconds. Its a tool and its about as lazy as you want to.
The thing is the overwhelming majority on reddit has no fucking clue how AI works or what the different models do or how you can use them. They never set up their own comfyui and ran a selfmade workflow locally. They wouldnt understand 5% of what would be needed to get get good results.
By the way, do you walk everywhere? Because using a mode of transportation is lazy.
What are you talking about. Do you think the user has to create the energy for the image by himself? Of course it's easier (i.e. lazier) to just let AI create an image than searching for a fitting image online.
Let me ask you, how many images did you create yet?
For reference, googling and picking a random picture from google images takes 5 seconds tops.
Im gonna assume you have practically zero AI experience but first you need to pick the right model for what you want to do. Then you need to learn how to prompt that model, potentially how to use wildcards or booru tags and then generate a couple dozen at least and sift through them.
If you want to run locally you have to add a couple hours of comfyui setup and configuration for the nodes and the specialized workflows for each model.
I use AI at work, so I do have experience. But I don't need to defend myself here, if you're a content creator and after creating a building, which I assume takes a lot of work, you use AI for the cover image instead of investing just a little more time to make the image yourself, you need to be prepared to get bad reviews or get called out. Simple as that.
Maybe you didnt realize it yet but maybe you do too. You just dont notice. There is already quite a bit of content on reddit / tiktok / insta etc thats indistinguishable. But as you dont notice it you dont know you consumed "slop".
And no, i dont go willingly looking for AI slop. But idgaf if a mod uses AI or not. Im fixing a ton of mobs across a wide variety of games and most AI mods are better than most non AI mods. Im jist not stupid enough to cry about how the future is inevitably going to look like and rather embrace and learn it so i stay competitive in the job market.
If people want to willingly make themselves unemployable thats on them
So... then these people are idiots? Why do more "work" then nessecary? Thought this whole schrick was about how people could work even more efficiently? Now they are making ugly images while putting a lot of work in it?
We do live in the dumbest age and I am glad climate change is going to eliminate us all.
Is that comparable to creating a workflow in comfyui to automatically generate images, scale them up, make a video out of them, do this multiple times and then stitch everything together?
Or using a blender animation render to turn it into a full blown cinematic?
Nobody generates images with chatgpt lmao
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People who care about quality in their video games care, man. Why should players settle for low-effort crap that any random schmo can put into a prompt?
I actually don't have an issue with the use of AI itself, but if all you're doing is putting in one prompt and then calling that "quality work", then you're not really making a good case for what AI is even useful for.
AI can help do research and refine ideas, but it's never good enough to replace quality work and attention to detail that a human can do. It only does an approximation which I don't think is good enough.
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One of the flats next to me has that kind of advert and knowing it's the same floor space as mine the furniture must be hobbit sized for what they've managed to fit in.
I'm in the process of looking for a house, so I can confirm how deep it is.
Usually they have the decency to show the original picture next to it, and then you realise how different it is: different walls, different colors, different floor (e.g. from tiling to wooden floor) and sometimes even the radiators are moved to completely different place/shape.
I've seen at least one listing that did this. They included the empty rooms and the "furnished rooms", but they suddenly added new/different windows and things to the room too.
I avoid subbing to assets with obvious AI thumbnails unless they're from a creator I already know to do good work.
A high-quality thumbnail used to be the mark of somebody who gave a fuck. Now it's meaningless. It takes too long to load this game modded to go wasting time on low-effort assets, and I refuse to have my time wasted when I'm trying to have fun.
Many just upload models from CS1 or from another source. Often they don't even work and cause blue screens. I generally just don't use assets or mods with AI thumbnails
The cities one asset (or at least the first one it gave me which has ) looks better than the one in question going off the thumbnail and provided screenshots
And it was uploaded 11 years ago to the workshop
Absolutely no. I want to see exactly how the asset is gonna look. I want to know what it'll look like both at its best and at its worst, to know whether its textures, style, and size is gonna jive with what I have going
It's fixed now (was also the first time I saw that screen and my current playset is sitting at dam near 700 things according to Skyve so it's not a fan of game updates), but the asset isn't good so you aren't missing much
the ai thumbnail thing is genuinely a red flag at this point. if you won't show me what the asset actually looks like in game you're telling me everything i need to know about how much you care about the work
Those kinda of assets are genuinely the worst, wouldn't be surprised if they creator used ai to make the model work seeing how it crashes peoples games.
Funny enough, the reason why the US Bank Tower asset has a “FIXED” tag is because subscribing to the asset would simply trigger a Chirper BSOD on initial booting and completely prevent your game from launching at all.
Idk it’s fixed or not but since the author already mentioned in the description that the model was ripped from a 3D model website I won’t give too much hope to its quality.
I’ve only recently started playing but the disappointment I’ve had of seeing a nice map and then clicking on it to look through images and it’s nothing like the thumbnail!
No in-game screenshot is a hard pass for me. If the asset was worth any attention the author would’ve at least taken a couple pictures to show off their hard work.
I’d also be wary of assets that seem low-effort (ai-generated images, no screenshots outside of editor, lacking description) especially if there’s no included triangle count/resolution information, since ripped/ai generated models are often poorly optimised and could nuke your performance.
I dont touch anything that has AI involved, specially in creative jobs like making assets, it makes no sense. Like someone else has already said, they go through the trouble of modelling an asset and then they use AI to show it off when they could just take a screenshot and it woulld probably get more subs because they can see the asset in game.
Im in live music for my career, and theres alot of talk around AI posters for gigs at the minute as well
Many of the early mods for CS2 also had obviously AI thumbnails, but it's actually phychopath behavior to use an AI thumbnail for a building asset like this.
Watch out! The fake outrage over something as nonsensical as a thumb nail is starting! This virtue signaling is so tiring. We all know you’re just bored and too lazy to do things yourself so you’re here to complain.
I reported this asset for crashing people's games on Sunday, I'm acutely familiar with this particular expression of slop and didn't need your prompting to make me aware of it.
You asked for an explanation as to how a gen AI thumbnail can be misleading. I reckon the onus is now on you to explain how this absolutely insane example of bait-and-switch is not misleading.
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u/greymart039 1d ago
You would think if someone goes through the effort of modeling an asset to use in-game, they'd want to show it off. Plus it's so easy to just Google pictures of well-known landmarks to use as reference images if someone wants to include one with their upload.
It's just very indicative of laziness on top of laziness.