Players Spot Hand With Six Fingers; Studio Denies Firing Artists for AI
Rayark - the Taiwanese studio behind, among other things, the mobile game series Cytus - faces accusations that it is laying off its graphic designers and replacing them with artificial intelligence. The developers decided to explain themselves in an official statement. Whom to believe?
The development of AI has gained truly momentum in recent months. As a result, tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney have entered everyday use for good. Although artificial intelligence offers considerable convenience, it can also be the cause of massive layoffs of skilled and hitherto indispensable workers. Such an allegation was aimed at the Taiwanese studio Rayark, whose output includes the mobile game series Cytus.
Graphic designer's oversight or AI ineptitude?
As reported byl GamerBraves, the gaming community has accused developers of dismissing their graphic designers and entrusting the artificial intelligence with their duties. Admittedly, this is a serious allegation, but the community has interesting evidence to support it.
The evidence is irregularities in the graphics of Cytus 2. Among other things, players noticed that one of the characters had six fingers, a mistake that is rarely made by specialized graphic designers. In some cases, the characters' clothes and hair were cut off in unusual places, which is usually a flaw in AI-generated images.
Angry (former) employee
This angry employee, mentioned by the Twitter user, is someone named Cbot - the company's former art director, responsible for the aforementioned Cytus 2. The creator addressed the recent actions of his former employer in very critical terms.
Cloudy response
In the wake of the scandal surrounding Rayark, the developers decided to take an official stance on the matter. In a statement the studio representatives firmly denied that the company uses artificial intelligence technology in its graphics and fires artists, while calling these accusations "completely false." Interestingly, a few paragraphs below, the studio, which claims not to use AI, announced that it is experimenting with artificial intelligence and hiring employees to work with this technology.
