Palworld CEO’s Old Tweets Prove Pals Were AI-Generated

Palworld is facing new allegations of AI use after old tweets resurfaced from the CEO wanting to create Pokémon likenesses while avoiding copyright infringement.

Palworld has shocked the world since its release. This new survival game has remarkably climbed to the top of the Steam charts and has broken records by reaching over a million concurrent players in just a few days.

However, the game which was quickly dubbed ” Pokémon with Guns ” was hit by waves of backlash with accusations of “plagiarism” . This doesn’t just apply to Pokémon, but also similar games like Ark and Rust.

Palworld’s main and probably most questionable case regarding “plagiarism”concerns the Pals in the game.

These creatures have sent the internet into a complete frenzy over their distinct resemblance to various Pokémon, and now many players believe they’ve found “evidence”that shows they were created by AI.

Palworld Players Show Pals Are Created With AI

Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe recently came under fire after a series of old tweets dating back to 2021 resurfaced.

“AI has evolved so much that I can’t tell which one is a Pokémon anymore,” read the tweet from its official Twitter/X account, which was accompanied by various Pokémon and their AI-generated lookalikes.

Fast forward to November 28, 2022, he tweeted: “If you run it through the AI filter, the image is often not a specific thing, so maybe the copyright issue will be resolved?” Before ending with: “In about 30 years, the general public’s perception of copyright may have changed considerably.”

here’s the CEO of Pocketpair talking about using AI to bypass copyright, generating fakemons with it, calling AI: Art Imposter a real-time image generation game, and being excited for games powered by GPT-4 pic.twitter.com/79xwZr0yEI

— Zaytri 🍉 (@imZaytri) January 19, 2024

Backlash has since poured in regarding the tweets, with one user commenting: “I was super excited to jump into Palworld, but all the evidence I’m seeing makes it pretty likely that the game uses AI to create the designs of their monsters.”

As of now, Pocketpair and Takuro Mizobe have not addressed these claims that AI was used in Palworld.