{"id":1454987,"date":"2026-01-08T23:43:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CBvMUKUX45VMuMMy8m6hWT"},"modified":"2026-01-08T23:43:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:43:32","slug":"i-fking-hate-gen-ai-art-hooded-horse-chief-says-if-were-publishing-the-game-no-fking-ai-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-fking-hate-gen-ai-art-hooded-horse-chief-says-if-were-publishing-the-game-no-fking-ai-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I f**king hate gen AI art,&#8217; Hooded Horse chief says: &#8216;If we&#8217;re publishing the game, no f**king AI assets&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Different game companies approach generative AI in different ways. Some, like <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/electronic-arts-signs-a-deal-with-stability-ai-were-evolving-how-we-work-so-that-ai-becomes-a-trusted-ally\/\">Electronic Arts<\/a>, embrace it; others, like <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/larians-big-q-and-a-session-on-how-its-using-ai-to-help-make-its-next-game-is-happening-tomorrow-on-reddit\/\">Larian<\/a>, take a more measured, cautious approach. And then there&#8217;s Hooded Horse, the publisher of games like <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/endless-legend-2\/\">Endless Legend 2<\/a>, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/cataclismo\/\">Cataclismo<\/a>, and the breakout hit <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/manor-lords\/\">Manor Lords<\/a>, whose CEO Tim Bender recently told <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/hooded-horse-gen-ai-art-ban-4x-strategy-steam-2000658179\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a>, &#8220;I fucking hate gen AI art.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It has made my life more difficult in many ways\u2026suddenly it infests shit in a way it shouldn&#8217;t,&#8221; Bender said. &#8220;It is now written into our contracts if we&#8217;re publishing the game, &#8216;no fucking AI assets&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Banning AI art is easier said than done, as some studios\u2014Larian and Sandfall Interactive, to name a couple high-profile examples\u2014have taken to using gen AI in pre-production, ostensibly to help speed things along. To help counter that, Bender says he urges developers to not use generative AI anywhere, even just for placeholders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some people will have this thought, like they would never want to let it in the game, but they&#8217;ll think, &#8216;It can be a placeholder in this prototype build&#8217;,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But if that gets done, of course, there&#8217;s a chance that that slips through, because it only takes one of those slipping through in some build and not getting replaced or something.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because of that, we&#8217;re constantly having to watch and deal with it and try to prevent it from slipping in, because it\u2019s cancerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As unlikely as that sounds, it has happened, and more than once. Ubisoft had to quickly make changes to Anno 117 after &#8220;placeholder&#8221; art mistakenly <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/city-builder\/ubisoft-touches-up-ai-art-placeholder-that-slipped-into-anno-117-but-fans-are-not-happy-it-was-there-to-begin-with-of-all-the-video-games-not-anno\/\">made it to the live version of the game<\/a>, and in a much higher-profile case Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, one of the biggest games of 2025, lost <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/indie-game-awards-pulls-two-awards-from-clair-obscur-over-generative-ai-use-we-have-a-hard-stance-against-gen-ai-in-videogames\/\" target=\"_blank\">two wins in the Indie Game Awards<\/a> after it too was found to have launched with &#8220;placeholder&#8221; gen AI art still in place.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"ce86e17f-2dfe-4cfd-9c99-fbe7cf4147f1\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:661px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:98.94%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"6offQUY4CXebir2TC27dMd\" name=\"kingdom come 2 square\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/i-fking-hate-gen-ai-art-hooded-horse-chief-says-if-were-publishing-the-game-no-fking-ai-assets.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"654\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-pc-games-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"ce86e17f-2dfe-4cfd-9c99-fbe7cf4147f1\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2026 games\" data-dimension48=\"2026 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2026 games<\/strong><\/a>: All the upcoming games<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/i-f-king-hate-gen-ai-art-hooded-horse-chief-says-if-were-publishing-the-game-no-f-king-ai-assets\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Different game companies approach generative AI in different ways. Some, like Electronic Arts, embrace it; others, like Larian, take a more measured, cautious approach. And then there&#8217;s Hooded Horse, the publisher of games like Endless Legend 2, Cataclismo, and the breakout hit Manor Lords, whose CEO Tim Bender recently told Kotaku, &#8220;I fucking hate gen AI art.&#8221; &#8220;It has made my life more difficult in many ways\u2026suddenly it infests shit in a way it shouldn&#8217;t,&#8221; Bender said. &#8220;It is now written into our contracts if we&#8217;re publishing the game, &#8216;no fucking AI assets&#8217;.&#8221; Banning AI art is easier said than done, as some studios\u2014Larian and Sandfall Interactive, to name a couple high-profile examples\u2014have taken to using gen AI in pre-production, ostensibly to help speed things&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/i-fking-hate-gen-ai-art-hooded-horse-chief-says-if-were-publishing-the-game-no-fking-ai-assets\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1454988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[1997,1622],"class_list":["post-1454987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-ai","tag-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;I f**king hate gen AI art,&#039; Hooded Horse chief says: &#039;If we&#039;re publishing the game, no f**king AI assets&#039; | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Different game companies approach generative AI in different ways. 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