Wargame Pillage allegedly features undisclosed AI-generated images
Making a game about Viking raids doesn’t mean you have to steal art.
The English-language rulebook for Pillage, recently released by Victrix, contains images that show signs of being AI-generated. Written by Guillaume Rousselot and originally published in French by Triskell Interactive, this skirmish wargame that focuses on attacks by Vikings and other raiding forces in the early medieval period.
The book features an array of photography and art, but it’s the pieces rendered in a painterly style that have been identified as possibly AI-generated by an anonymous post on Victrix’s official Pillage Facebook group. That post and the ensuing discussion have since been deleted, but screenshots were preserved in this thread on r/Wargaming. Close examination of the images reveals multiple-reined horses, trees growing through houses, and improbable amalgamations of carts and fences. One or two instances could be chalked up to the art style’s typically ambiguous nature, but there’s simply too many examples piling up.
A selection of dubious images from Pillage. | Credit: Victrix
