The Video Game Industry Has Reportedly Banned AI Art Completely

gameranx.com:

An insider in the video game industry has shared that it has decided to ban AI art, because of copyright issues.

Our insider is Trent Kaniuga, famous now as an art YouTuber, but also a veteran artist at several game studios. Trent cites Blizzard, Riot Games, Capcom, Epic’s Fortnite, and even Marvel Comics as former clients.

Trent is a freelancer now, and also calls himself a game director, as he is working on a game called Twilight Monk. It does seem that he still works in games in a freelance capacity, as he made the following statement in that capacity.

Trent shared his revelations on Twitter:

“AI art is now BANNED by many major game dev studios due to “possible legal copyright issues”.  Many old clients are amending contracts recently to end the use of AI art. This goes in line with what I’d predicted in several of my first videos on the subject.

Many of my clients are sending me addendums to my contracts with them to eliminate the use of AI art in their outsourcing.”

Trent also shared this when he was asked who his sources are:

“Im being sent amendments to my contracts. My source is the companies themselves.”

So we can assume that potentially Blizzard, Riot Games, Capcom, Epic Games, and also possibly Blizzard’s parent company, Activision Blizzard King as a whole, have decided to go ahead with this ban.

While this has remained outside the orbit of video games thus far, AI art has been a hot topic in the artist community. The fear that many artists have that their work will be taken over by AI is very real, and that fear sits even at different types of art. So, this does affect artists in video games too, and that’s whether they use CG or sprites or other kinds of art for those games.

The prospect of copyright