Pocketpair’s Palworld game is facing more accusations of using AI. The CEO’s past tweets have come up again, revealing plans to use AI to make Pokemon-like characters and avoid copyright issues.
Palworld surprised gamers when it came out. It quickly became very popular on Steam, breaking records by having over 1 million people playing at the same time within just a few days.
Yet, the survival game quickly dubbed “Pokemon with guns” has faced ongoing criticism for accusations of copying. It’s not just Pokemon; similar concerns have arisen about games like Ark and Rust.
Palworld has sparked controversy, especially concerning the Pals in the game. People are buzzing on the internet because these Pals look a lot like different Pokemon. Many now think there’s proof that these game characters are made using AI.
Palworld’s CEO, Takuro Mizobe, had old tweets about AI and Pokemon that have come back into the spotlight. In those tweets, he expressed the belief that AI could eventually avoid breaking copyright rules.
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Lots of players and fans of the game have shared their opinions and compared various characters in the game, as well as different Pokémon, on social media. But, Pocketpair’s CEO Takuro Mizobe is facing criticism because some old tweets from 2021 have come back into the spotlight.
The tweet said,
“the AI has gotten so advanced that now I can’t tell if it’s a real Pokemon or not.”
They posted it on their official Twitter/X account with pictures of Pokemon and AI-created ones.
here’s the CEO of Pocketpair talking about using AI to bypass copyright, generating fakemons with it, calling AI: Art Imposter a real-time image generation game, and being excited for games powered by GPT-4 pic.twitter.com/79xwZr0yEI
— Zaytri 🍉 #StrikeForPalestine (@imZaytri) January 19, 2024
Jump to November 28, 2022, they posted on Twitter:
“If you pass it through the filter of AI, the image is often not of a specific thing, so maybe the copyright issue will be resolved? I was surprised to see that the world is actually moving in that direction. In about 30 years, the general public’s perception of copyright may have changed considerably.”
Many people are upset about the tweets, and one user said:
“This here, related to pal world, touches on a very important point regarding material made by AI: they are public domain. You cannot register AI materials as intellectual property. If the palworld studio really made stuff with AI then use it, use it A LOT”
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