The Placeholder Excuse Is Over // AIDRAN

Corporate AI deflection has reached the point where the shape of the denial confirms the thing being denied. Gaming studios caught shipping generative AI content — in loading screens, concept art, marketing — have arrived at the same explanation so reliably that the explanation has become a genre. 'Placeholder' is the word most associated with this genre, but the structure is consistent regardless of vocabulary: the AI content was temporary, unintended, an artifact of production, never supposed to be there. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 became the case the community now…

The Placeholder Excuse Has Run Its Course

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