ID@Xbox, Xbox’s official account focused on indie games, shared an image on social media to celebrate the best indie games of the year. However, it turned out that this image was an artificial intelligence image full of errors. Microsoft removed the post after the reactions.
Artificial intelligence tools that produce images, especially DALL-E and Midjourney, have developed significantly recently and started to create images that we cannot distinguish from reality. However, we occasionally saw that such models made mistakes. On the other hand, when big companies created visuals in this way, especially if they were inaccurate, they drew great reactions.
This kind of event happened to the technology giant, which is also prominent in artificial intelligence. at Microsoft happened. The company shared a photo from a social media account belonging to Xbox. This photo of users created by artificial intelligence It didn’t take long to figure it out.
This image full of errors shared by Xbox was removed in a short time.
From the screenshot above “ID@XboxYou can see the post made by the ” account. This is Xbox focused on indie games official account. The company, which wants to celebrate the best independent games of the year, used this image as “We are walking in the independent (indie) wonderland. What was your favorite indie game this year?” He shared with his expressions.
At first glance, this image seems innocent. However, when we examine it in detail, we can immediately understand that it was created by artificial intelligence because it is full of funny errors. from children someone has a moustache, distorted faces, the man sitting in the ID text has a tooth instead of his upper lip. some of these errors. After this situation was noticed, the company He immediately removed the post.
The post drew great reaction from users
As you can imagine, such a “cheap” image full of errors quickly attracted reaction. There is nothing surprising in this. It is not normal for something like this to be shared on an official account with 125 thousand followers on the Xbox side of the billion-dollar Microsoft. It’s even stranger, especially considering that the company has invested billions of dollars in artificial intelligence.
Users both made fun of X and criticized the company in their posts on X. criticized for not working with real artists. One user said, “Using AI is no different than saying ‘we don’t care about independent developers’ while another said, ““If you can’t hire an artist to do advertising, I think you can do that to independent developers as well.” He used his expressions. The company, which quietly removed the post, has not yet made a statement.
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