Roblox AI tool generates Clair Obscur lookalike, sparking plagiarism concerns

Roblox Uses New AI Tool To Immediately Plagiarize Clair Obscur

The Roblox Corporation just revealed its new “real-time, action conditioned world model,†a generative AI tool for producing interactable videos that seems to work exactly like Google’s Project Genie, which launched last week. While that one was able to rip off Mario and Zelda, the Roblox version is plagiarizing 2025's Game of the Year. "We see several immediate uses for our Roblox world model," the company announced on February 5. "We will use it side-by-side text, image and video prompts as a way to launch auto-generation of immersive worlds. In Roblox Studio, a creator could walk around and use prompts to 'paint' a world and then convert it into a 3D representation or direct to Roblox native as a way for many people to play simultaneously." It then proceeded to show a really ugly-looking version of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as proof. The strangest part of the entire reveal is that the world model tech that the Roblox Corporation decided to show off was actually an addendum to a completely separate reveal. The real announcement here is the impending release of their “4D generation†tech, a feature for the Cube Foundation Model that allows “creators and players to generate fully functional objects†that can be ported into Roblox, the platform its billions of users actually play on and spend money in. The genAI world model addendum was featured in a reply made by the official Roblox X account to its 4D generation announcement, which explained that the “real-time, action conditioned world model†has been “trained on a combination of data, including proprietary Roblox 3D avatar/world interaction data.†The “including†part of the message here is clearly attempting to do a lot of heavy lifting, because everyone immediately noticed that the “woman in a glowing cave†prompt had unmistakably used footage of Sandfall Interactive’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 to generate its “real-time dreaming†world. As one user very handily pointed out in their reply, it seems to have specifically used the Flying Waters location as inspiration, as well as Maelle’s model (including her outfit). “What do @SandfallGames think about this? I wonder what you trained your model on?â€

Roblox brags about its experimental AI tech while showing off a disorienting AI-generated Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lookalike

The Roblox Corporation recently tried to show off its experimental generative AI tech, one the company hopes will let players fabricate entire game worlds soon, but the best the tech could come up with for now is Clair Obscur: Expedition 33... if you squint really hard and pretend that game really sucked, actually. Roblox lives and thrives off of user-made games, so perhaps it's unsurprising that the Roblox Corporation is also chasing the generative AI dragon. In a series of recent tweets, the company details what it calls 4D Generation, a feature launched yesterday allowing bloxers to generate "interactive 3D objects like cars, plans, and more" via prompts. The company then moved onto something it calls 'real-time dreaming,' a more experimental idea being worked on in its research lab, and this is where the nightmare fuel comes in. Roblox Corp says users will have the "ability to generate fully playable video worlds prompted from any text or image," and then convert it to "Roblox native as a way for many people to play simultaneously." In a dystopian knife twist, the company calls the idea "Dream Theater - where one user is dreaming, while others watch and prompt them." Want to see what real-time dreaming is capable of right now? Well, it's capable of generating a game of the year winner. No, I mean literally - Roblox put out a video showing off the tech, and apparently a prompt as vague as 'woman in a glowing cave' excretes what to me looks obviously like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Maelle running around a blurry version of the acclaimed RPG's Flying Waters area. Check it out below. "Why did it make Expedition 33?" one viral tweet reads. "Expedition 33 looks so bad in this, how did it win game of the year?" another says. Roblox co-founder and CEO David Baszucki explains that the company "built this model with internal Roblox data, as well as open source video data." That internal data includes the 13 billion hours Roblox players spend in-game every month, which is now being "used to train world models, as well as AI-driven NPCs."