AI art?

[Silene]

I seen online that the creator states that he never used AI... [...]

source?

[Unigoat_Edition]

Hey, I was just wondering if the game utilizes AI art because to me, it immediately from first glance looked like it does. Personally, I don't support the use of AI because it takes away (or even steals) work from actual graphics designers and artists.

Thanks for raising this — it's a fair question given how AI tooling is evolving in illustration work.

To clarify the process: the images were created by Guillaume Alarie, the game's author. He trained his own AI model exclusively on his own original artwork, which the model then used to generate a base set of illustrations. Those outputs were subsequently refined and retouched by hand to arrive at the final artwork used in the game.

We understand the concerns around AI-assisted art, and we take them seriously. In this case, the tool functioned as an extension of the illustrator's own creative process rather than as an independent artist — the model was trained solely on Guillaume's own body of work, and he directed and finalized every image himself. For that reason, we believe the artist credit accurately reflects who created the artwork.

Happy to answer any further questions about the process.

[Resolute445]

Hey, I was just wondering if the game utilizes AI art because to me, it immediately from first glance looked like it does. Personally, I don't support the use of AI because it takes away (or even steals) work from actual graphics designers and artists.

Thanks for raising this — it's a fair question given how AI tooling is evolving in illustration work.

To clarify the process: the images were created by Guillaume Alarie, the game's author. He trained his own AI model exclusively on his own original artwork, which the model then used to generate a base set of illustrations. Those outputs were subsequently refined and retouched by hand to arrive at the final artwork used in the game.

We understand the concerns around AI-assisted art, and we take them seriously. In this case, the tool functioned as an extension of the illustrator's own creative process rather than as an independent artist — the model was trained solely on Guillaume's own body of work, and he directed and finalized every image himself. For that reason, we believe the artist credit accurately reflects who created the artwork.

Happy to answer any further questions about the process.

I'm sorry, but none of this is remotely believable. In fact, I am choosing to believe you are lying to us outright as that is actually less insulting than to buy the argument that the alleged artist drew enough images to *exclusively* train their own AI model on (which is more images than you'd need for this game) THEN decided that it really just needed the AI slop filter to bring the art all together.

And then to try and sell that argument to a community that appreciates and desires the human creativity that board and card games represent is actually repugnant.

This is not "AI-assisted art". This is the output from someone prompting a LLM.

First rule of holes: when you find yourself in one, stop digging.

[Silene]

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To clarify the process: the images were created by Guillaume Alarie, the game's author. He trained his own AI model exclusively on his own original artwork, which the model then used to generate a base set of illustrations. Those outputs were subsequently refined and retouched by hand to arrive at the final artwork used in the game.
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Happy to answer any further questions about the process.

how many thousand cats did he draw for the ai to understand what a cat is?

[Liddicoatite]

Hey, I was just wondering if the game utilizes AI art because to me, it immediately from first glance looked like it does. Personally, I don't support the use of AI because it takes away (or even steals) work from actual graphics designers and artists.

Thanks for raising this — it's a fair question given how AI tooling is evolving in illustration work.

To clarify the process: the images were created by Guillaume Alarie, the game's author. He trained his own AI model exclusively on his own original artwork, which the model then used to generate a base set of illustrations. Those outputs were subsequently refined and retouched by hand to arrive at the final artwork used in the game.

We understand the concerns around AI-assisted art, and we take them seriously. In this case, the tool functioned as an extension of the illustrator's own creative process rather than as an independent artist — the model was trained solely on Guillaume's own body of work, and he directed and finalized every image himself. For that reason, we believe the artist credit accurately reflects who created the artwork.

Happy to answer any further questions about the process.

You've copy-pasted this same explanation in multiple places on here and on BGG.

If the artist has drawn enough pictures that an AI image generator can output a self-consistent visual style reflective of their own art, then why do they have to use the generator at all? Why not just do the art themselves anyway and avoid all the heartburn that's now coming their way? Would they consider redoing the art from scratch in the future if they had some more time/budget? I have no issue with retouching art if it's handmade, but it seems pointless when something else is doing the majority of the work.

[NeonMulch]

My friend got this game as a gift, we are all artists in our friend group and we begrudgingly tried this meh game together. It looks very much like AI art. I wonder why the artist then didn't do all of the illustrations but trained a model on them? It just looks...off? Cheap?

[MrTopHatJones]

My friend got this game as a gift, we are all artists in our friend group and we begrudgingly tried this meh game together. It looks very much like AI art. I wonder why the artist then didn't do all of the illustrations but trained a model on them? It just looks...off? Cheap?

Because they're lying. No artist would make art for a game then say "yeah let's run this through ChatGPT and ruin it."