Level-5 CEO admits generative AI was used in recent showcase and apologizes

Level-5 president and CEO Akihiro Hino confirmed that generative AI was used in the studio's recent digital showcase and apologized for it. He said AI was used experimentally to make the presentation more spectacular, after viewers suspected some footage was AI-generated, and stressed the games themselves are not AI-made. Hino said AI at the studio is mostly for efficiency, such as converting artwork into polygons, partly to help cut development time on major releases from five years to two.