Developers of Party Animals announce an AI video contest – game gets a review bomb

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Talk about not reading the room right? Party Animals developers Recreate Games recently announced an AI video contest and it went down like a lead balloon.

With all the well reported issues and concerns surrounding AI / Generative AI, you would think it would be an absolute given that announcing an AI contest would be a thoroughly idiotic idea – but apparently not. Someone genuinely thought this was a good enough idea to put online.

In a post on X/Twitter, the official Party Animals account invited people to win a share of $75,000 to “bring your ideas to life with AI”.

How did it go? Well, it’s now on Mostly Negative for recent user reviews on Steam with 828 negative reviews flowing in since the announcement:

As a result, the developer has somewhat attempted to backtrack on it. Sort of. Well, they’re now asking for opinions on what they should do, which includes keeping the AI category:

Hi everyone. We’d like to address the recent discussion around the AI video contest, and first of all, we’re sorry for upsetting players with this event. We’re also sorry that we didn’t communicate with everyone clearly enough before the event started. Our original goal was to lower the barrier to creation. In past contests, we saw players with great ideas and scripts who couldn’t fully bring them to life because they weren’t familiar with tools like editing, modeling, or animation software. We hoped AI could be a more accessible tool that lets more people take part. That said, we understand the concerns around AI content. We are not trying to dismiss handmade work or disrespect creators. To us, AI is just another tool. What we truly care about is the idea, the expression, and the final work. We’d like to leave the next step up to the community. Please vote on what we should do: 1. Cancel the AI video contest 2. Change it into a non-AI creation contest 3. Keep the AI category and add a separate handmade category If you have another suggestion outside of these three options, please feel free to share it as well. Thank you.

If I could face-palm any harder I might hurt myself. How do you read the room that badly? And still don’t firmly backtrack on it and cancel it. Sometimes the tech and gaming communities end up in a bubble, but you have to be living under the heaviest rock imaginable not to understand there’s a lot of negativity flowing towards Generative AI.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

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