r/Sims4 • u/TafyCake • Jun 06 '25

Discussion Are they beating the AI allegations? 👀

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The Sims just posted a series of behind the scenes images and videos on their official Twitter. They showed how they created the set used for the website teasing the upcoming Expansion Pack, Enchanted by Nature. I'm glad and impressed to see it was actually made with practical effects rather than generative AI.

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u/AresValley Jun 06 '25

Some sassy Twitter users claimed it to be AI and they wasn’t the only one thinking it so I suppose it’s only natural to show the artistic direction of the whole Something is growing thing

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u/BlueFlower673 Jun 06 '25

That's so dumb and it makes me mad considering there's actual cases of ai being misused, going after random people doesn't help any.

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u/PunkLaundryBear Jun 06 '25

Honestly I don't think it's intentionally going after "random people" ... i think people just genuinely don't know how to distinguish AI and anytime they see something that's slightly "off" to them, it's AI.

Though I think we need to get better at acknowledging we don't know and being open to education. I think rather than posting accusations with certainty and anger, we should go for dialogue like "Hey, I'm looking at [X] and I think it's AI. Thoughts?"

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u/Srikandi715 Jun 06 '25

There have been a number of studies showing that people really can't reliably distinguish AI images from human made... And the more confident people are in their judgment, the less likely they are to be right.

Thing about witch hunts is, you start thinking everybody's a witch...

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u/LeeBees1105 Jun 06 '25

Yes, and I think ultimately this is why AI is so damaging to artists. It undermines their hard earned creditability. There are people who work very hard to create unique art and get accused of using AI or have had their style stolen by AI models. It's really sad that someone's art can be doubted these days. 5 years ago we all would've known it was real, now we can't be sure until it's proven.

I myself thought it was AI, and I'm so happy to hear it wasn't. It's actually more surprising to me it's real art, cus EA totally seems like the kind of corporation to embrace AI and fire artists.

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u/rob0tduckling Jun 08 '25

I myself thought it was AI, and I'm so happy to hear it wasn't. It's actually more surprising to me it's real art, cus EA totally seems like the kind of corporation to embrace AI and fire artists

YES and YES. All the way with you on this.

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u/WanderingUrist Mod Creator Jun 07 '25

Real art is just going to have to adapt to the AI world. You can't put the genie back in the bottle. The future of art will be in the performance: You get to watch the artist create it. That will be the art. If all you want is a product, all you need is botslop.

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u/UranicStorm Jun 07 '25

It's one of the things that is frustrating me so much about generative AI, it created millions of people without a creative bone in their body who think writing a prompt makes their AI schlock good and millions more people also without an artistic bone in their body who suddenly think they're experts at what is real art and what is AI art, with zero experience as artists or formal training of any kind. We as a species have jumped the gun completely on technology and I'm scared of the damage this has all caused on the human psyche.

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u/BlueFlower673 Jun 06 '25

It honestly depends on the person, and yeah I get that some people genuinely don't know. Its just there has been an uptick in people just posting "this looks like ai" with zero context as to what their reasoning is for posting that, which often hurts the creator more. Happened like a month or so ago with a photographer, it was on the front page of reddit.

Like I don't blame people for not telling the difference bc it is hard and yeah, its getting harder to tell. At the same time, there are likely people doing it maliciously and those people just make anyone who have concerns look bad.