Earlier this year, Shift Up, the developer behind Stellar Blade and the upcoming Stellar Blade: Blood Rain, landed itself in hot water by releasing a music video featuring an AI-generated rendition of the latter game’s protagonist, Evie. The team released a new trailer for Stellar Blade’s Nintendo Switch 2 release recently, and fans thought it was more of the same.
That’s because it features a realistic rendition of Stellar Blade’s lead, Eve. The character in the trailer was so perfectly recreated that some thought there was no way she could be real – but she very much is.
Stellar Blade’s Latest Trailer Isn’t An AI Eve
Eve, the stunning lead character in Stellar Blade, might be an augmented synthetic being, but the model playing her in the newest trailer for the game’s Switch 2 release is not.
On November 6th, Nintendo of America released the new trailer, which was built around the concept of taking Eve everywhere you go with the Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game, which was released on November 5th. At the time of writing, the trailer had amassed a whopping 1.12 million views, two and a half years after it first launched on PlayStation 5.
Here’s the trailer:
To the untrained or ignorant eye, sure, it could be an AI replication of Eve, but it’s fairly obvious it’s a real person. However, when the trailer was uploaded to platforms that automatically identify AI-generated content, it was marked as having some AI present. It just wasn’t made clear what had been generated or enhanced via AI.
In one scene, a little monster scampers away from under someone’s bed, so it might have been that.
The actor portraying Eve for this stellar trailer is Jade, a London-based model signed to BMA Models. Images of her surfaced on social media after some complained she was an AI-generated character. Perhaps they were insinuiting that nobody could look that perfect:
In one comment under the video, a user wrote, ‘AI slop trailer from the AI slop dev. Fork found in kitchen.’ Another wrote, ‘That was awesome, but I wish these guys weren’t such AI slop fans.’ Another user showed their inability to differentiate: ‘Who’s the actress? Or is it AI again?’
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