Outdraw.AI is a new game where the goal is to outsmart an AI tool using drawing prompts to create simple art. The game was designed by a small indie collective and will release in Q1 2025.
The premise of Outdraw.AI is similar to the Jackbox Party Pack games, as players use their phones to input something based on prompts provided by the game. In this case, players will be given a piece of art to draw, whether it’s an animal, an object or even an abstract concept. Players will submit their drawings and players will need to guess what the drawing is. However, there is also an AI tool built into the game which will also be looking at the art and trying to guess what the drawings are. The goal is to draw in a way that human players can figure out the answer, but the AI can’t.
Outdraw.AI was developed by game designer Tomo Kihara and the art collective Playfool. It was previously conceived as an art installation in Civic Creative Base in Tokyo in 2022 and has toured various art festivals in the years since. The team have stated they created the game as a way to use AI to enhance human creativity, not replace it.
However, there are ethical concerns, much like other AI products. While the game’s Steam page does state that no player drawings will be used for training data, there is no information about the data sets used to train the AI attempting to recognize drawings. The Steam page states that the game uses Google’s Gemini API, which does explicitly state where it gets its training data. All Google has confirmed is that it uses “publicly available data” without any further specifics.
Outdraw.AI will be released for Steam in Q1 2025.
Published: Dec 11, 2024 11:00 am