{"id":214524,"date":"2025-06-26T00:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T00:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214524\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T00:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T00:41:12","slug":"bullying-works-once-again-jurassic-world-evolution-3-is-ditching-its-ai-generated-scientist-portraits-after-receiving-backlash-for-sparing-the-wrong-expense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/214524\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullying works once again: Jurassic World Evolution 3 is ditching its AI-generated scientist portraits after receiving backlash for sparing the wrong expense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jurassic Park was a story about the dangers of using technology to manufacture the beauty and majesty of life so it can be turned around for a profit. Frontier Developments, publisher and developer of the upcoming Jurassic World Evolution 3, seems to have relearned that lesson, announcing earlier this week that it would remove AI-generated art assets before the game’s October launch after finding itself on the receiving end of public outcry.<\/p>\n

Jurassic World Evolution 3 was announced back in 2024, but we got our first proper look at the dinopark management sequel with a gameplay reveal trailer<\/a> at Summer Game Fest earlier this month. Potential players were enthusiastic about new features like generational dino breeding, new terrain and scenery customization tools, and balloon tours. Everyone loves balloon tours.<\/p>\n

Many of those players weren’t as enthused, however, when they visited Jurassic World 3’s Steam page<\/a> to find an AI generated content disclosure statement. The now-removed disclaimer, which you can find on archived versions<\/a> of the Steam listing, said that “Scientists’ avatars are created using generative AI.”<\/p>\n

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(Image credit: Frontier Developments)<\/p>\n

Within hours, Steam users started criticizing the inclusion of AI-generated art assets on the game’s discussion forum. The longest-running of those threads, posted on June 7 with the title “No gen AI Andy’s around here, no thanks,” has since reached 18 pages of discourse<\/a> that I absolutely do not recommend you read.<\/p>\n

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“So we giving up on humans is that it?” writes thread author frieza137. “May as well not make a game, drink, sleep, walk or do anything. Sad.”<\/p>\n

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(Image credit: Steam user Birdskull)<\/p>\n

Another now-locked thread<\/a> called the AI portraits part of a “trifecta of ‘Nope'” alongside pre-purchase bonuses and Denuvo DRM.<\/p>\n

There were, of course, plenty of users who noted that a few scientist NPC portraits are, all things considered, relatively inconsequential bits of art. In response, they received sentiments like those of Steam user Birdskull<\/a>, who said, “If they get to use AI-generated content in this game without pushback, all they’re going to do is push the envelope with every release from here on out. Eat \u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665 Frontier.”<\/p>\n

As disagreements on the internet tend to do, things devolved into 17 days of circular mudslinging until, on June 24, an official Frontier account entered the fray<\/a> with an announcement.<\/p>\n

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(Image credit: Frontier Developments)<\/p>\n

“Thanks for your feedback on this topic,” Frontier said. “We have opted to remove the use of generative AI for scientist portraits within Jurassic World Evolution 3.”<\/p>\n

A small victory against AI encroachment, sure. But at the end of the day, it’s a spat that could’ve been easily avoided by paying an artist to knock out a few scientist faces. That’s worked pretty well so far.<\/p>\n

Jurassic World Evolution 3 launches on October 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jurassic Park was a story about the dangers of using technology to manufacture the beauty and majesty of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-214524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114746889694994197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}