Board Game Arena

Unfortunately the BGA mods aren’t anti-AI. In fact, they can’t live without it. Every single one of their announcements reeks of chatGPT copy-pasted nonsense.

Me and my online friends opened BGA last night and it made us look at AI slop and we just decided to play some party games on steam instead this sucks.

Glad I wasn't the only one who immediately noticed this AI slop.

I don't care how the game is, Clanker Art can get stuffed.

Unigoat_Edition wrote: ↑14 August 2026, 22:43

CoreyHardt wrote: ↑14 August 2026, 14:28 We pay for subscriptions here, I don't enjoy seeing crappy AI spam across the front page of the website.
Plenty of good games to find and adapt that aren't regurgitated junk like this.

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.

You are ignorant of how these models work and your artist is lying to you. Training a model like this takes significant resources and millions of inputs, plus human-reinforcement learning on the orders of years. They generated these images with one of the frontier diffusion models.

BusError wrote: ↑16 August 2026, 14:40

Unigoat_Edition wrote: ↑14 August 2026, 22:43

CoreyHardt wrote: ↑14 August 2026, 14:28 We pay for subscriptions here, I don't enjoy seeing crappy AI spam across the front page of the website.
Plenty of good games to find and adapt that aren't regurgitated junk like this.

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.

You are ignorant of how these models work and your artist is lying to you. Training a model like this takes significant resources and millions of inputs, plus human-reinforcement learning on the orders of years. They generated these images with one of the frontier diffusion models.

Nah, it's worse than that. They know full well they just had a clanker plagiarize a bunch of images for their lazy game and are hoping that *we* are the ignorant ones and will buy that utterly insulting response.

It's no surprise that "I'm happy to answer more questions" also turned out to be a lie. They've realized they can't bullshit their way around the fact that this game is a lazy, AI riddled slopfest.

Get rid of the AI garbage!

I really hope they will at least make a change and will make a good visible notification on every game if it is AI Illustration or not. I could as well live easy without AI illustrated games. But unfortunately in a crazy world we live right now, this will not be possible anymore. This is definitely making me consider if I will renew my premium membership in the future...

Shame on having this on the site
Get this GenAI garbage off the platform

An entire thread of whining ai bots. This is a whole new level. I come onto BGA to play well designed games with the occasional visit to the forums to see what people have to say about them. Didn't expect to find an entire thread of crappy pasta that discusses nothing about the gameplay.

I never thought anyone would fall so low. This game needs to be taken down.