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Point and click adventure Zarathustra uses AI Art and AI Voices

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Last updated: 20 Nov 2023 at 1:17 pm UTC

Well this is sure to be an interesting one and will no doubt spark up some comments - Zarathustra is an in-development point and click adventure that looks intriguing but the way it's made will raise some eyebrows.

I have to admit…it does look pretty good but it's made with AI tools. Which in many ways, opens a big can of worms. Not just AI giving a bit of a hand, but a lot of it was done thanks to AI. The developer, Tim Rachor, doesn't hide it either and states it clearly on the itch.io page that "Most of the Art was created with Dall E 3 and the voice over comes from https://elevenlabs.io/".

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The developer said only the first day in-game is available, and they will continue it if people show interest for them to carry it on. They say it's a "rather casual experience with no dead-ends or overly difficult puzzles".

Find it on the itch.io page.

What do you think to this one?

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jordicoma 20 Nov 2023
Next step is link all this sistems, and have to only promt "AI, please make for me a AAA game". And it will do it.
Nowadays I think it's a little bit more complicated. I haven't tested AI tools myself.
dpanter 20 Nov 2023
I don't want to like this.
matiaslavik 20 Nov 2023
When are they going to make an AI player that can play the game for me?
grigi 20 Nov 2023
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The art and content have subtle mismatches, and the voices are... pretty lifeless.
It was in that uncomfortable valley for me. It was better than some amateur things, but also more... wrong.
Nezchan 20 Nov 2023
Yeah, no. Screw these guys.
Linuxer 20 Nov 2023
Soon i can make a game too i just say to AI what i want and i have a new monkey island
whatever 20 Nov 2023
Built on the backs of real artists.

Pure garbage.
pb 20 Nov 2023
We can fight it but it will come. Fortunately I already have enough human-made games in my library to last me a lifetime.
Ehvis 20 Nov 2023
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We can fight it but it will come. Fortunately I already have enough human-made games in my library to last me a lifetime.

Maybe. But the real fight still has to come first. Do the creators of the data used to train "AI" models need to be compensated for the usage of their work?

Some people pretend that this is easy because "humans learn from other people" too. But that completely ignores the fact that humans are actually intelligent. AI models are not. They have no understanding at all of what they produce. They can't be held accountable for things like plagiarism. The law has already demonstrated that an animal can't hold the right to a photo it took of itself because of its legal status. AI models won't fair any better in this regard. So my expectation is that commercial work created by AI will become very difficult once all this is sorted.
Cyril 20 Nov 2023
Thanks for sharing, I won't buy it.
Linuxer 20 Nov 2023
maybee its only good that the technical aspect decreases an creativity happens purely by imagination words singing and all kinda different nuances and details and the result appears right on the screen. more spiritual in actuality !? how many are artistic souls butare blocked by some technical obstacls or unwillingness to learn those
kokoko3k 20 Nov 2023
One the the beauties of art is that you can sense (or just illude yourself, but still) a human contact with the artist itself.

AI will just throw that away, yet another step versus the flat(er) future world.

Please, don't buy that; If you're running out of good stories, read a book full of words (written by a human).
akselmo 20 Nov 2023
No wonder the pixel art looks kinda messy.
slaapliedje 20 Nov 2023
I'm thinking I should just have AI fork the Ultima IV Remastered for the c64 and do the porting work to the Atari 8bit computer. I mean, why not? It'd be quicker than me learning 6502 assembly language, and how to use display lists for the Atari and C64...
Cerberon 20 Nov 2023
Its great to see technology allowing more people to get into game development, this looks really interesting.
Guppy 21 Nov 2023
every new teknologi that comes along encounters this, imagine if farm workers had the internet to voice their dismay on back when tractors first appeared:

"built on the backs of real farm workers!"
"Look at all the nicks and dings in those tractor harvested potatoes!"
etc..

Still the farm workers found other employment, and the world kept turning.

And yeah the "AI" is coming for my job too as a programmer - it will either be a miserable failure or I'll find other employment. The world will keep on spinning. ;)
mylka 21 Nov 2023
what about the story and the dialogues? are they from chatgpt?
Purple Library Guy 21 Nov 2023
every new teknologi that comes along encounters this, imagine if farm workers had the internet to voice their dismay on back when tractors first appeared:

"built on the backs of real farm workers!"
"Look at all the nicks and dings in those tractor harvested potatoes!"
etc..

Still the farm workers found other employment, and the world kept turning.

And yeah the "AI" is coming for my job too as a programmer - it will either be a miserable failure or I'll find other employment. The world will keep on spinning. ;)
Believe it or not, the whole mechanized agriculture model is still controversial. Lot of juries are out about the net impact there, which is still creating slums, eroding soil, destroying rural communities and associated with overuse of chemicals to this day.
So that's not necessarily a reassuring analogy.
slaapliedje 22 Nov 2023
every new teknologi that comes along encounters this, imagine if farm workers had the internet to voice their dismay on back when tractors first appeared:

"built on the backs of real farm workers!"
"Look at all the nicks and dings in those tractor harvested potatoes!"
etc..

Still the farm workers found other employment, and the world kept turning.

And yeah the "AI" is coming for my job too as a programmer - it will either be a miserable failure or I'll find other employment. The world will keep on spinning. ;)
Believe it or not, the whole mechanized agriculture model is still controversial. Lot of juries are out about the net impact there, which is still creating slums, eroding soil, destroying rural communities and associated with overuse of chemicals to this day.
So that's not necessarily a reassuring analogy.
Not to mention all the right to repair stuff, where you can't just fix any of the farm equipment, you have to call up the company, so they can come out and charge whatever they want...
Nezchan 22 Nov 2023
every new teknologi that comes along encounters this, imagine if farm workers had the internet to voice their dismay on back when tractors first appeared:

"built on the backs of real farm workers!"
"Look at all the nicks and dings in those tractor harvested potatoes!"
etc..

Still the farm workers found other employment, and the world kept turning.

And yeah the "AI" is coming for my job too as a programmer - it will either be a miserable failure or I'll find other employment. The world will keep on spinning. ;)
Believe it or not, the whole mechanized agriculture model is still controversial. Lot of juries are out about the net impact there, which is still creating slums, eroding soil, destroying rural communities and associated with overuse of chemicals to this day.
So that's not necessarily a reassuring analogy.

So you're saying that comparing two groups of workers whose work and the products thereof have traditionally been undervalued, and in the modern age are being forced out by corporate (or wearing the "corporate-funded nonprofit" figleaf) interests is apt after all?

And yeah, from all indications from actual programmers who have looked into it, despite wild claims AI ain't coming for the programmers any time soon. But those fatcat illustrators living in luxury, they better look out.
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