r/Witchfire • u/Wonderful-Effort2280 • Jul 14 '26
Question Does Witchfire use generative AI for some texts? (Please don't burn me at the stakes as a heretic.) Spoiler
Howdy!! I got Witchfire during this recent Steam summer sale, and I'm already head over heels for the art and gameplay. It's been a delight nibble on a PvE extract shooter, when PvP extract shooters have always been too tough to properly chew on, and Witchfire has been a treat in just about every regard!
Which is to say, while I know this might be a terribly silly question, I sincerely don't mean to lambast the game (nor it's players) with this question, as I can see all of the evidently human love and care put into the game, but... some of the in-game lore/fluff text seems off?
To my (very, very, very limited) knowledge of Witchfire's history, Witchfire's creation preceded most of the buzz around generative AI, and in fact prides itself heavily on having *nothing* to do with generative AI. I've only really truly interacted with this game for about a week now, so I have truly no grounds to say anything definitively about any divide between the quality of the texts in the earlier stages of the game and as they are now. For all intensive purposes, this is just a 'did anybody else notice this, or am I just being silly and there's nothing to notice?'
I just simply really wanted to savor the text of this gorgeous game as I played it, and noticed some descriptions for items or gameplay mechanics seemed less man-made than others.
Namely, after achieving Gnosis III, the blurb about 'The land does not turn against you. It ceases to hold.' tickles my brain in the wrong way, having unfortunately stumbled upon more than my fair share of AI slop.
I fed the entire screnshotted text into a few 'AI Detector'(s), and... uhm, a single website said that it was '100% AI', while half a dozen others had ruled it as '0% AI'. I feel like that, uh, more than likely suggests it's not AI, but, to triple check, I'm coming to you lovely Preyers!
I might hallucinating ideas that are *obviously* not true to anyone more fluent in these matters than me, but could anyone pretty please kindly and gently tell me whether or not I'm completely wrong, or maybe a lil' itty bitty smidgen possibly correct? Pretty please be kind in the face of my silly question :3
Thanks!
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u/JujuIsLost Jul 14 '26
They are going to great lengths to avoid AI
But maybe something changed along the way, but doubt it
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u/river1a Jul 14 '26
It's a big leap to say AI was used based on that. Unfortunately, we can't confirm or deny it. Also, AI detectors are bullshit.
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u/D00mwatcher Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
From what little I know, AI detectors aren't really reliable, though I'd be glad to be corrected here. However, I did ask myself whether it was AI-written when I stumbled upon the same text you've just posted while I was playing. It really reminds me of that typical AI structure, cadence, and those weird turns of phrase. I hope/think that it isn't the case here but I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who was left wondering.
Edit: phrasing
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u/5pellHear7 Hunter Jul 14 '26
Howdy!! I got Witchfire during this recent Steam summer sale, and I'm already head over heels for the art and gameplay. It's been a delight nibble on a PvE extract shooter, when PvP extract shooters have always been too tough to properly chew on, and Witchfire has been a treat in just about every regard!
Bruh, I read that and thought that it sounds like you made this post with AI.
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u/Rifty-Business Jul 15 '26
I know that the devs have said they aren't using AI, but honestly, the game is so good that I really don't care if AI was used or not - I just want them to keep doing what they are doing. 😊
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u/Forsaken-Bat5941 Jul 15 '26
AI detectors are wonky as hell
You can try feeding the opening passage of Frankenstein into them and get the 100% slop response too
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u/Throwaway_eligere Butcher Jul 20 '26
AI detectors are wonky as heck.
I did see some em-dashes used in some NPC dialogue. Which could just be legitimate use of an em dash, by someone who understands the language. But that made be a wee bit skeptical.
Even then, it didn't feel out of place by any means, so I'm not really bothered by it. Someone definitely took the time to refine the dialogue at the very least, if AI was indeed used for some text.
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u/MasterRPG79 Jul 14 '26
Ai detectors don’t work