Palworld embroiled in AI and Pokémon ‘plagiarism’ controversy
Palworld embroiled in AI and Pokémon ‘plagiarism’ controversy
Social media users highlight character design similarities and developer’s generative AI…
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Inspired with some feature similar to the original works != plagiarism. I swear a shit tons of people just don't understand what's the nature of plagiarism is at all before sprouting nonsense like this.
And no, that grin on a cat face isn't original to Pokemon, Cat Bus from My Neighbour Totoro has it.
The Cheshire Cat significantly predates Totoro.
Exactly, grin on cat is nothing original at this point, it's as aesthetic as Picasso.
Are we looking at the same picture? It's not that it's a grin on the cat, it's that it looks nearly 1-1 traced from Pokemon
Its a line of white triangles inside a half oval shape. Its the most cut and dry "cartoon sharp teeth smile" design on the planet.
With eyes the same colour, shape and relative size
Glowing yellow eyes is such an old cat stereotype that my grandmother finds it cliche, and the pals eyes are a sharper oval. The meowths ovals plateau and flatten more at the top and bottom, while the pals eyes have more of a pointed peak.
They used a "make shape" tool on some 3D modelling software. Egads, you mean the make shape software is going to make similar shapes?? As if its some sort of, what, algorithmic program?!?
I can't find another smiling cat that looks quite like it. I mean, they have the same number of teeth, it looks at least a little bit sus
Not that I'm going to rag on this company for making a Pokemon that shares a face with Viking Meowth. Fuck Nintendo
Well it might not be on the internet, but that smile and triangle teeth is how kids usually draw evil smiles when I was a kid. And that predates Pokémon.
Also we're past 1000 pokemon now and a huge number of them are based on actual animals, mythical creatures, pop culture references etc. There are going to be similarities and it's completely unavoidable. You would drive yourself insane trying.
They know the difference. But some people just feel compelled to defend Nintendo no matter what.
Am a pokemon fans, and palworld seems mostly based on established pokemon roster, i can understand calling it uninspiring design but to go as far as call it plagiarism is quite funny.
may as well let gamefreak have permanent patent on monster capture games at this point when people want only them to create any