the people who made palworld released a game in 2022 that was based around AI art. the CEO of pocket pair, Takuro Mizobe, also founded Coincheck, a cryptocurrency wallet and exchange service. it also got hacked in 2018, resulting in a loss of over 500 million US dollars
I missed these little nuggets of info during the development of this game, does explain why these fakemon were just uncanny enough to be sus, they were puked out by a LLM. That the CEO of Pocketpair is all in on crypto answers far more than it needs to. Releasing a game called "AI: Art Impostor" is merely telling us who they are, we should have listened.
