Yesterday, the inevitable happened. A wholly AI-generated "review" of Resident Evil Requiem was published and pushed to Metacritic, influencing the game's score on the highly influential review aggregation site.
The so-called review came courtesy of VideoGamer, an outlet owned by the gambling-centric media company ClickOut. Last week, ClickOut fired most of its human editors in a questionable pivot towards wholly AI-generated content. The result? A meandering and nonsensical garble of words forced to leverage every piece of Requiem pre-release content because the model had no existing reviews to steal from.
ClickOut Media owns The Escapist, Esports Insider, Video Gamer, Esports.net and various gambling-focused websites.
For some reason, the article's featured image is also AI-generated; This version of Grace Ashcroft has seen better days. I'd question the need to generate a featured image that looks exactly like the game's key art but with the protagonist's face changed, but I don't see the point in pretending that any of the decisions made in this situation were logical.
The review is presented as being written by a real author, John Gamer, also known as Brian Merrygold. This "iGaming Expert" has a distant look in his eye...
