AI Art Accidentally Wins Destiny 2’s ‘Art Of The Week’ Fanart Contest


I feel like the web3/metaverse/NFT era was one kind of nu-tech problem, one that could be safely blocked off and labeled as “lame” by an overwhelming majority of people and safely ignored. But AI? AI feels different, and its become an explosion of practical use cases that have people debating its morality, ethics and legality.

Sometimes that’s talking about using AI art to write eighth grade essays that can fool teachers, but today, the Destiny 2 community ran into a situation where a piece of AI art actually won one of the slot’s in Bungie’s “Art of the Week” contest in the TWAB. It’s something many artists try to win as it’s both neat to be featured and seen by hundreds of thousands of readers, and you get a special emblem only a few dozen people in the game have.

The artwork above was called “Guardian Rendition,” and uploaded to the community page. What seems to have happened is that the uploader made it with an AI program, simply thought it looked neat and somewhat Destiny-ish, and put in on the page. That’s what the uploader said, and even said they’d take it down if people were offended by it.

But before that could happen, whichever Community Managers are responsible for picking the AOTW winners simply saw a cool piece of art and decided it should win one of the slots that week, almost certainly without knowing it was AI art because it’s not like these things are labeled “AI art” and most non-artists wouldn’t be able to tell.

Artists or people familiar with hallmarks of AI art can spot the difference, however. In this case, it’s kind of weird that this is…not really an actual Destiny Guardian. It has a hood like a hunter, but the entire get-up is just sort of generic sci-fi rather than something identifiably from Destiny. Also, I’ve played with this tech enough to know that when you type in prompts like “sci-fi” you get the AI always trying to put astronaut-like backpacks on people, as that’s what it associates with science fiction.

Finally, weird hands. The hands always look weird. In this case there are actually five fingers, I suppose, which is a step up from normal, but they still look weird.

This has sparked at least some level of debate between artists offended that the picture won, and the “what’s the big deal about AI art?” more tech-focused crowd. I even heard one guy talking about how we should take the lessons of Destiny 2’s Season of the Seraph to heart, that AIs can have humanity too. Uhhhh not sure about that one, boss.

It’s the weekend, so I don’t think Bungie has gotten together to make an official ruling on this specific instance of AI art, or AI art in general as submissions on the community page or AOTW picks. My guess is that since Destiny 2 has a huge, passionate artist community and those artists passionately hate AI art as they believe it steals from the craft the produces soulless outputs, AI art will probably be banned from future contests like this (disclaimer: I have been yelled at for doing AI Destiny art in the past when I first discovered the tech). But now I guess community managers will have to learn how to spot AI art themselves, or maybe work with some artists who could tell the difference in the future. And of course this is just for the current iteration of the tech, as in the future, it may evolve again and learn how to do fingers or sci-fi people without backpacks.

The AI art (and text) conversation is certainly complicated, but I think it’s fair for something like a longrunning fanart contest to forbid AI art. We’ll see what Bungie says about all this soon enough, so check back here for an update.

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