Yup.
The day that Ken Penders is gone is the day the world can finally start to heal.
Heal from… his mediocre comic book work. The greatest plague to society. Obviously.
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![Speaking to Kotaku, series creator Kenji Kanno explained exactly how the team has been using generative Al in development.
"We used [generative Al] as a reference," he says, via a 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."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jxqrcwweeelly73tczzyisyn/bafkreihvetir76kikgehzkg2g5grn5qrbihdqf5fgesze2pnfzahq6zu24)
!["For us, the extent of how we use generative Al is only what I mentioned earlier, he says. "[It's] just for ideas and just as a reference. Moving forward in the future [generative All 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 Al for this game."
So, there you have it. Crazy Taxi: World Tour will in fact not contain Al-generated assets, according to the man in charge.
It's obviously still a bit of a red flag for these tools to be used at all, but this makes me feel better about the situation. As far as I'm concerned,
using it purely for reference purposes is a far more acceptable use than implementing generated art into the game.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jxqrcwweeelly73tczzyisyn/bafkreigzran2gthnyfiefykhzxwnsvd3ef3ckhl4w4vmf6frimkidd674y)
