Level-5 CEO admits using generative AI in recent showcase
Level-5 president and CEO Akihiro Hino has apologized after confirming that generative AI was used in the studio's recent digital showcase for Professor Layton and Yo-Kai Watch titles. Hino stated the AI was used as an experiment to make the presentation more spectacular and apologized for making fans uncomfortable, while emphasizing that the games themselves are still made by human hands. He also mentioned the studio's goal to reduce development time by using AI for efficiency tasks like converting artwork into polygons.
- Entities
- Platform: Steam Frame
- Company: Valve
- Game: Yo-Kai Watch
- Game: Professor Layton
- Topic: Game Development
- Person: Akihiro Hino
- Topic: Generative AI
- Company: Level-5
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