The continuous chant of those who believe that artificial intelligence is going to replace human creativity is always “You’ll see in two years!” This is, paradoxically, the same thing that was said about NFTs. Someday they’ll have to be right, I suppose. For now, there are companies that embrace it, but the majority, seeing the public’s apprehension, are quickly distancing themselves from the technology. The latest to do so, of course, was The Pokémon Company.
AI, I do not choose you!
But not in video games or character design (although it’s expected that they don’t touch it for anything creative), but in an illustration contest for the card game, which is usually done for artists from the United States. In this year’s competition, several illustrations generated by AI have made it into the top 300, and fans are not happy that they could go through the process without being detected.
Now, The Pokémon Company has made it very clear that it will disqualify entries that violate the terms of the contest, so AI cheaters can say goodbye to the prize, and they will be replaced by real people with real creativity. Companies are slowly realizing that what seemed like a great opportunity is actually a step backwards that users can detect right away. It looks extremely bad. We’ll see how technology ends up, but for now, things don’t look good for fans of writing a sentence and hitting Enter.
