Stop me if you've heard this before, but Activision Blizzard has once again been accused of utilizing AI-generated art. This time, the dubious practice has allegedly been done in the marketing for an upcoming Diablo Immortal x Hearthstone collaboration event.
The image features two characters playing Hearthstone together inside a tavern. There's food and good cheer, and one of them happens to have a circlet partly engraved into her skin. It's just one of several telltale signs that something didn't quite go right in the automatically-produced image, and bless the pic's creator for not realizing it, because frankly, this stuff should be called out every single time. Assuming, of course, this is true. (Which it very probably is.)
Stranded on purpose.
Look up at that user-edited image, which was wonderfully made by a Redditor who goes by the name Ipyreable. The thread in question, with its nearly 4,500 upvotes and counting, is filled to the brim with comments that cut to the heart of the matter.
"Guess $158 pets aren't enough to pay an artist to draw the image for their colab lmao," Ipyreable kicks things off. "Microsoft loves ai slop more than anyone," CivilerKobold proclaims, and...
