Unity pulls AI-driven property production tool Atlas from store after one day

After only one day in the Asset Store, Unity has removed Atlas, an AI-driven property development tool.

Earlier today, the company introduced a set of new Unity AI tools, including Unity Muse and Unity Sentis, in private beta to help designers make use of AI-based search across Unity documents and embed AI ideas in Unity Runtime to improve gameplay and other aspects.

In addition, Unity makes a number of third-party “AI Verified Solutions” available via its Asset Store, with the expectation that these resources would meet its “greatest quality and compatibility requirements.”

“These new options enable AI-powered wise NPCs, AI-produced VFX, textures, 2D sprites and 3D designs, generative speech, in-game screening with AI, and more,” the company wrote.

However, it appears that among those services, Atlas wasn’t exactly honest.

Just over 24 hours after it announced those tools, Unity said on social media that it has removed Atlas from the Asset Store because it “broke our terms.”

“We are actively evaluating all validated options companies in the AI classification as we stay dedicated to maintaining the quality of our environment,” the company said.

Since Unity does not provide any additional details, it is still unknown which rules Atlas violated.

The Atlas website boasts that the programme uses “innovative generative 3D AI innovation to enable the production of possessions and virtual worlds in a faction of the time it takes using standard approaches” and that it can generate “quality” geometric designs in a matter of seconds.

A game designer has reached out to Unity to discuss Atlas’s removal from the game.

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