There was a lot of excitement when SEGA finally revealed the rebooted Crazy Taxi: World Tour at the Xbox Game Showcase, but that excitement soon turned sour as it emerged that the game would utilise generative AI. Kotaku chatted with original series creator Kenji Kanno about the game and its use of genAI and Mr. Kanno said that gen-AI is apparently only being used for a reference point so a human would view the designs and then create the actual thing. Here’s what he said:
“We used it as a reference,” Kanno explained via translator. “So our artists would pull up [and] generate some of their ideas and then they would look at that, you know, generated image and then they would draw the actual thing. So actual creators, everything from programming to assets, everything is made by an actual human. It’s only used as a reference for them to look at and then they would actually create the actual thing that would go into the game.”
“For us, the extent of how we use generative AI is only what I mentioned earlier,” Kanno said. “[It’s] just for ideas and just as a reference. Moving forward in the future [generative AI] is probably going to be more of a hot topic, but I think that’s all I can say right now on how we use generative AI for this game.”
Bet someone from Sega went on MNN and saw how many children were throwing toys out of prams.
Here is my opinion AI, Ai should only be used for productivity reasons, not creative reasons. I am fine with Ai if it’s used as a tool and not a replacement for workers. What did with crazy taxi is fine because it didn’t really affect any creative output and it didn’t replace any human workers.
What is wrong with you AI makes great stuff better than people look at Juju or Glorb. AI videos and music is amazing so are the games.
Yeah now you people move the goalpost it shows why companies should not cater to your opinions because you fold no matter what having no real values you’ll consume corporate slop and conform no matter what same with everything else it’s why things never change
Really don’t see the issue the more they bend the knee the worse for them. The anti AI crowd won’t stop.
This doesn’t make sense because Steam says you don’t need to disclose AI usage if it is not present in the final game’s user facing assets. AI tools are totally fine. So if this is true why did they put the disclosure? But even if what they said is true, that doesn’t make it better.
This is not some brand new big budget AAA game, it’s a safe sequel to an over 20 year old 1-hour game that was completely fine not using AI on the dreamcast.
As long as AI is not used for creative actors, workers, or artists then we are 100% good.