THE FUSE

Crimson Desert’s launch last week was soured by the discovery and later confirmation of AI-generated art assets in the open-world RPG. The developer and publisher behind Crimson Desert have since explained that the AI art was intended to be placeholder content during the development process that would be replaced before launch. Not everyone buys this theory, and some devs have been sharing their own ugly and silly placeholder art to show what actual temp assets should look like when making a game.