Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has recently faced backlash and criticism over a small number of AI-generated textures that were found in an early version of the game. While these textures were quickly removed and replaced with the correct ones and reported on months ago, the recent GOTY win resulted in further scrutiny and what many fans agree is an overblown response.
While Sandfall Interactive has been quiet on the matter to this point, they've finally broken their silence, with Guillame Broche offering the following comments (via YouTube):
"Everything in the game is human made. When AI first came out in 2022, we'd already started on the game. It was just a new tool: we tried it, and we didn't like it at all. It felt wrong. We had originally used it as a placeholder for textures we missed, but we took it out as soon as we found it. But yeah, the concept art, voice actors, everything is human-made. It's pretty hard to predict what the future of the industry will look like, but everything will be made by humans from us.
In a recent developer Q&A with Sandfall Interactive, director Guillame Broche makes it clear in no...
