AI Generated Image
Blood Rain music video roasted for being "AI slop"
Polygon.com • • technology
Key Points:
- Shift Up, developer of Stellar Blade: Blood Rain, released a controversial AI-generated music video featuring the protagonist Evie, which received backlash for poor lip-syncing and excessive sexualization.
- The video includes questionable copyright references, such as a KPop Demon Hunters logo and a Sony camera, without clear authorization from Sony, the original publisher of Stellar Blade.
- Fans and viewers criticized the AI trailer heavily, reflecting broader public concerns about generative AI’s ethical implications, environmental impact, and its effect on hardware prices due to increased demand for data centers.
- The video game industry is facing rising hardware costs partly attributed to AI data center production, with consoles like the Xbox Series X costing significantly more than at launch.
- Shift Up has faced previous controversies, including criticism over the sexualized portrayal of Evie in the game’s announcement trailer and its history with the provocative gacha game Goddess of Victory: Nikke.
