11 bit studios have issued a statement to clarify the use of AI-generated materials in Alters. Polish company says it is never part of the final release for AI-related material.
The use of AI in creative work and entertainment has greatly criticized. We have seen musicians, movie studios, game developers apologizing to real artists for using liberal art stolen, AI has asset flips, etc.
For those unknown people, Alterrs is a science-fi game that has existence, base-building elements. It is built by the company that created a frostpank, and my war. Ulteers released in mid -June 2025 made positive reviews from players, critics, material creators. However, some users watched AI-based texts for some graphics assets. This is what it seemed like.
The players also found the localization of the game strange, as it was done in poor translation, and suspected that it was done by AI.
11 bit studio Where is The AI-text was a piece of background texture, and was used as a temporary placeholder that would be replaced with real art by the graphical designers of the game. The creators of the game explained that it was not intended to join the game when it was sent. It intended to give more time to translation agencies to work, and its localization intended to add official translation to the game as part of the hotfix.
The company has reviewed the game code and said that there are no other such examples. It apologized to the players for not telling users that AI was used in the development of the game, and also for the decision to ship the game with AI-non-disciplined subtitle.
Is it wrong to use AI for coding, sports development, or day-to-day functions? I have mixed feelings about AI, but I don’t think it is wrong to use it until humans are mostly heavy-lifting, and AI is only assisting them with monthly functions. This is how I see the placeholder text that is mentioned in 11 bit studios, which means replaced with some art created by a real person. They forgot to change the text with art, it seems like a real mistake that anyone can do. If they used AI to generate art which was based on someone else’s work, it would be immoral, it is not.
Regarding the use of AI to generate subtitles, the developers said that all languages have more than 3.4 million words, and AI was used to translate around 10K words, ie 0.3%of the text. It does not feel very bad, they wanted to make non-English players ensure to enjoy the game in their native language. But since the official translations were not ready, they opted to use AI-non-disciplined subtitle and sent the game with it. Suppose a gamer wanted to play the game badly, but he did not speak/read English, AI-non-disciplined subtitle could be helpful to him. This is what they probably thought, but it was not right.
The fact is that the 11 Bit Studio AI-text wanted to replace the AI-text officially by his partners, I think it would be appropriate to give them the benefit of doubt. This can be intelligent to delay the release of translated language support.
Steam rules have an AI disclosure section, under which all sports have to describe how it uses AI in development, in the execution of the game. I am sure that the ulturs would have violated the terms of the services of the valve, which remains to be seen.
People are saying that the studio issued only a statement because they were caught, and they wanted to save the face. This is possible, I am not denying this, but I think they have done the right thing by promising to address the issues, and to address the issues. More companies should follow this example, and either already reveal the use of AI, whether they are an Indie developer or one million or billion-dollars studios, or just do not use AI. I like later.
What is worth it, I have not played the game, so whatever I have said here is from a neutral point of view. Apart from not disclosing the use of AI, I do not see anything wrong here, given that they have not stolen the work of other people. If AI helps developers to save time, and helps to avoid overwork, crunch, etc., I think the use of artificial intelligence for moral use cases should be cured. When companies want to change developers with graphics designers, AIs, this is when it is a problem.
Do you know that AI music band has managed to achieve 600,000 fans?
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