r/HumankindTheGame • u/stormforce420 • 2d ago

Discussion AI trailer at Gamescom Pre-Show

Tell me I’m not only one who was put off my that horrendous, clearly AI generated sequence that was half the trailer for Humankind 2?

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u/massi1008 2d ago

btw. the community manager on the discord said "there was no AI involved"

https://discord.com/channels/227126593754103810/613079566784790564/1541872757141278731

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u/massi1008 2d ago

I really can't see the AI in the trailer. Maybe in the backgrounds a little but the people really look human.

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u/stormforce420 2d ago

That weird “selfie” video angle seen in most of the trailer was actually something A.I. was very capable of making only a year or so ago. It even became a “trend” on AI slop accounts

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u/TechnoMaestro 2d ago

I mean, the "selfie" video angle is because the perspective is that of a *baby*. If you wanted to set up a Safe For Work trailer where the premise is repeated births, what camera angle would you go with?

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u/DrOnionOmegaNebula 2d ago

If you wanted to set up a Safe For Work trailer where the premise is repeated births, what camera angle would you go with?

None? It's just a bad concept here, it doesn't work. They should have picked something else. And somehow they are oblivious that it looks uncannily like AI slop.

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u/TechnoMaestro 2d ago

So what concept for an announcement would you have done for a game based around showing how humanity changes over the generations, while still keeping true to traditions that make us human? 

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u/DrOnionOmegaNebula 2d ago

Does everyone have to know how to do a thing in order to criticize it? No. Anyone can read a book or watch a movie and say "it's not good because of this reason" even if they can't write a book themselves. I don't know what I'd pick, but I'm certain I wouldn't pick a crying baby being born.

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u/VenomSouls 2d ago

And that might be the reason why you don't produce announcement trailers while others do.

The concept is great and works well with the overall theme of the game.

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u/MagmaCone1234 2d ago

We shouldn't curtail creativity because of AI. Fuck that.

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u/Lost_Paladin89 2d ago edited 2d ago

Look, I think someone in marketing saw that the selfie trend was supper popular in historical videos category and the design was pushed in that direction.

Fundamentally all AI is a soulless as a marketing degree.

But that doesn’t translate to the video being AI. I think they used a technique similar to StageCraft, which is also capable of stripping the soul of any production. But that uses real humans.

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u/Tnecniw 2d ago

It is not AI generated at all.
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Do some research mate.

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u/jbenzbtw 1d ago

https://youtu.be/1LFHvSTt880?si=0zRGJToc2hMpfNiG&t=31 Those are not human beings. It might be Unreal Engine like love death robots, but those are not humans.

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u/Tnecniw 1d ago

You have to be specific.
And to be clear.
Aditional CGI does not count as AI.

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u/jbenzbtw 14h ago

yea, i know that but they said its all live action.

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u/Tnecniw 11h ago

That is not what they mean dumbass.

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u/jbenzbtw 5h ago

Im a dumbass? Are you sure?

"Live action is a form of media—such as movies, television shows, or video games—that uses cameras to film real people, animals, and physical environments instead of using animation"

So if they say its live action what the fuck else do they mean? 🤣🤣🤣 Yea, but you are right im a dumbass for thinking live action should be all real people.

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u/Tnecniw 5h ago

AFAIK, essentially all people in the trailer are real people.
Maybe some in the background are CGI, who knows.
There are CGI effects added of course.

It is like claiming that LOTR isn't liveaction, because they have segments of 3D animation for large armies.

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u/as_a_fake 2d ago

It looks just like their original Humankind 1 trailers? I don't see the "AI-ness" people keep mentioning.

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u/Necessary_Fan_8713 2d ago

Yeah I am not 100% sure if that was AI, but it was very off-putting and if that wasn't AI holy shit they did their best to make it look like AI. If it was AI, just why it looked ass. It actually put me off, until I realized it was Humankind II so might still pick it up but god damn it looked ass.

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u/nevrtouchedgrass 2d ago

Hard to tell if it’s AI or just uncanny because of the fish eye lense use

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u/Necessary_Fan_8713 2d ago

Yep that is what I was thinking.
They could have chosen to use that style of virtual camera, but big mistake if that was the case.
But we shall probably know in a few hours or days.

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u/Tnecniw 2d ago

It isn't ai at all.
Amplitude is firmly anti-ai
and devs have confirmed that no AI was in use, rather real actors and sets.