The Alters Was Seemingly Translated Using AI, Accidentally Includes AI Bot Response In-Game
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The Alters Was Seemingly Translated Using AI, Accidentally Includes AI Bot Response In-Game
The Alters has been caught using generative AI. At least two points in the game, it looks like the response to whatever prompt the devs used to generate text for the game was just copied and pasted over. One example suggests that 11 Bit Studios relied on it quite heavily, too, as one of the AI bot comments that was left behind shows that it was used to translate the game into Brazilian Portuguese. There is no warning on the Steam page that Generative AI is used in The Alters.11 Bit Studios has not commented on this backlash at the time of writing, and there is nowarning on theSteam page that generative artificial intelligence is used. TheGamer has reached out for comment.
Examples that appear to show generative AI being used in The Alters are being found and shared online. One example suggests that 11 Bit Studios relied on it quite heavily, too, as one of the AI bot comments that was left behind shows that it was used to translate the game into Brazilian Portuguese.
The Alters Players Find AI Chat Bot Responses Left In-Game
Impressão minha ou a tradução pra português de The Alters usou chatgpt e esqueceu de apagar o prompt? (e sim, tá ruim o texto em português do jogo, várias traduções erradas ou imprecisas, frases confusas que não soam natural etc) — Heitor De Paola (@zitosilva.bsky.social) 2025-06-27T16:44:24.259Z
The instance of AI being used to translate the game was spotted by Hector De Paola, co-founder and editor of the gaming site Overloadr. The image shows some of the text from the Portuguese translation, which reads as follows when translated back into English: “Sure! The text translated to Brazilian Portuguese is: Every conversation two people can have, right?”
That reads a whole lot like a response you’d get on ChatGPT when you’ve asked it to generate something for you. In other words, there’s a chance that 11 Bit didn’t hire a translator/localiser as you typically would in game development.
There also appears to be an example of AI being used to generate text from scratch, or at least AI being used to make edits to text that someone else had written. This was spotted in a line of text that appears on a screen, with one of the sentences reading: “Sure, here’s a revised version focusing purely on scientific and astronomical data.”
there’s more damning evidence in-game, even, but it’s all background stuff that you have to go out of your way for there’s text crawls where you can still see the AI prompt responses before it produces a bunch of science jargon wild that they’ve dodged disclosures all things considered — D (@vysetron.pixeldie.com) 2025-06-23T17:18:23.720Z
As well as this, some players believe that some of the art used in-game is AI-generated.
Well that’s disappointing. What the fuck is it with studios thinking AI is fine *only* for the icons. If they’re not important, why have them at all. If they’re important then PAY YOUR ARTISTS! — Daniel Wynter (@boardgamefeast.bsky.social) 2025-06-23T06:00:53.438Z
11 Bit Studios has not commented on this backlash at the time of writing, and there is no warning on the Steam page that generative AI is used in The Alters. TheGamer has reached out for comment.