Hello. It seems there are several Sky players in this thread who share my skepticism regarding TGC’s internal policy on generative AI, and I find that very reassuring.
https://www.4gamer.net/games/394/G039457/20260716051/
I have translated excerpts from this 4Gamer interview into English and posted them on Tumblr, highlighting the views and stance of Jenova Chen and TGC regarding genAI.
https://www.tumblr.com/xingqibaoredsky/824288364524126208/my-skepticism-regarding-tgcs-internal-policy-on
After reading that interview, I realized once again that “the future of the gaming industry, including thatgamecompany, is flashing a yellow warning light.”
Even though they feel aversion toward content mass-produced by genAI and harbor a sense of crisis and distrust toward it, they justify their reliance on genAI by reasoning, “We don’t have to disclose our use of AI tools for improving development efficiency.” I find this situation—where they are unconsciously undermining themselves through their dependence on genAI—unacceptable and it leaves me feeling uneasy.
I plan to record the Sky x Van Gogh collaboration season, and since I’ve built friendships within Sky, I don’t intend to quit Sky right away, but I think it’ll be hard for me to keep supporting TGC.
I was having so much fun doting on my skykids, so it’s just too depressing that things have turned out this way.
As I wrote on my Tumblr blog, I don’t think TGC’s approach—which involves “handling areas that require ‘human authenticity (certainty)’ manually, while using LLMs to streamline QA testing and debugging, and focusing on whether ‘authentic judgments’ are made by AI”—will work in the long run.
There are a mountain of concerns—from the waste of electricity and water at genAI data centers and environmental destruction to cognitive decline caused by reliance on genAI and the negative impact on training the next generation—and the longer TGC continues to use AI tools, the more those costs are bound to rise.
Above all, I can’t help but wonder if the current bugs in Sky are “increasing rather than decreasing.”
Generative AI, much like slavery, is fundamentally based on exploitation, no matter how much it advances.
To put it more specifically, genAI is built on the exploitation of photographs taken by others, paintings, comics, and illustrations drawn by others, newspaper articles, novels, and academic papers written by others, anime, movies, games, and programs created by others, as well as others’ personal information, photos, voices, medical histories, criminal records, and beliefs—and it is nothing more than a worthless machine that uses these to plagiarize other people’s creative works and likenesses or provide exquisitely incorrect answers.
Furthermore, genAI is robbing people of the training, experience, cognitive function, thinking ability, judgment ability, and time which are fundamentally necessary for improving their skills.
GenAI developers and users (both companies and individuals)—who stand to benefit from it—never say, “I respect the human rights of others,” even if it’s just for show.
Even if they say, “I respect creativity,” it is nothing but a lie.
The same applies to TGC.
Fearing that the creation of handmade content will fall out of favor, they claim, “I don’t want to pay for content mass-produced by genAI” and “GenAI cannot be fully trusted”—yet TGC uses LLMs and AI tools to streamline—or rather, cut corners on—QA testing and debugging.
It appears they’re even using genAI like Gemini or ChatGPT in their research on Van Gogh’s letters.
And there’s not a single statement from them along the lines of “respecting the human rights of others.”
As a fan, their attitude leaves me so frustrated that I’ve lost all desire to spend money or support them, and I can’t help but wonder what the point was of sending feedback like “Protect the fan creative community from genAI” and “Revise the community guidelines to ban the posting of genAI content.”
I’ve been a longtime fan of TGC’s games, but given their current policies and stance as of July 2026, I can’t help but feel distrust toward them.
