Fortnite players are once again furious, and this time it’s not because someone cranked 90s faster than they could blink. No, Epic Games — the multibillion-dollar titan that rakes in more V-Bucks than some countries see GDP — seems to have possibly sprinkled a bit of that delicious “AI slop” into the game. And nothing gets a community going quite like the suspicion that a trillion-dollar-adjacent corporation has replaced artists with a glorified autocomplete for images.
Fans on Reddit have been pointing at posters and sprays that look like they were generated by a robot that got fed Fortnite concept art and a half-eaten Pop-Tart. The verdict? “Say no to AI slop,” they declare, bravely standing against the spread of blurry nonsense textures in a game famous for its near-religious devotion to polish and style.
Players are insisting that a company with infinite money should maybe — just maybe — pay real artists instead of outsourcing visual design to a neural network that can’t spell or draw hands. Some are even calling for a boycott, because nothing terrifies a corporation more than the vague threat that a handful of people on Reddit might skip a battle pass.
Epic, of course, hasn’t confirmed anything, but that hasn’t stopped fans from sharpening their pitchforks over the principle of it all: Fortnite may have goofy dances and banana people, but at least it was hand-crafted goofy banana art. If AI-generated posters start creeping in, what’s next? AI-generated emotes? AI-generated lore? A fully AI-generated patch note apologizing for last week’s AI-generated mistake?
For now, players remain vigilant, staring at every in-game asset like art detectives hunting for telltale smudge marks — because nothing ruins a billion-dollar game quite like the possibility of a free image generator being involved.
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