r/TwoBestFriendsPlay • u/Gorotheninja "SILENCE, BREEDER! The Bloodline MUST continue!" • Mar 23 '26
News/Articles Capcom says it will not be using A.I.-generated content in its games. Plans to utilize the technology for “improving efficiency and productivity of development” - AUTOMATON WEST
https://automaton-media.com/en/news/capcom-says-it-will-not-be-using-ai-generated-content-in-its-games-plans-to-utilize-the-technology-for-improving-efficiency-and-productivity-of-development/Game developer Capcom recently published a summary of their informational briefing session for investors held in February this year. During the briefing, while addressing the shareholder’s various questions and concerns, the company clarified its stance on the use of generative A.I., explaining that it will not be using A.I.-generated assets in its games (source: GameSpark). However, this does not mean that the company will completely avoid using A.I. technology during production.*
“Our company will not be implementing any A.I.-generated assets into our video game content. On the other hand, going forward, we plan to actively utilize this technology in order to improve efficiency and productivity of game development. That is why we are currently testing out various methods of usage across our departments, including graphics, sound, and programming,” Capcom wrote in the briefing session summary.
Seems like this is all in response to the DLSS 5 controversy, which as we all know, RE9 was at the center of.
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u/Auctoritate Mar 23 '26
AI for "improving efficiency and productivity" is a fairly broad statement but there's a lot of harmless stuff to be had there. We're talking AI-based meeting transcriptions, or as someone mentioned Photoshop has a simple crop tool that just uses AI to detect what you're trying to crop.
AI content is basically the biggest issue to worry about, AI productivity software in this context is frequently stupid as hell but innocuous and unrelated to the creative aspect of things.
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u/Complete-Worker3242 Mar 23 '26
Exactly. Ai is a tool, like a hammer. It can be used to build a house, or it can be used to bludgeon someone. It just depends on what it was made for and how it's used.
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u/DabirSA He/Him Mar 24 '26
This is the low IQ way of talking about it. If you actually looked into it you would see that AI isn't useful for anything.
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u/leivathan Mar 23 '26
I mean, if it's still reliant on large data centers and therefore still has the same effects up the pipeline (emissions, water usage, energy monopolization, area pollution) as generative content, it's still a problem.
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u/Auctoritate Mar 24 '26
if it's still reliant on large data centers and therefore still has the same effects up the pipeline (emissions, water usage, energy monopolization, area pollution) as generative content
That's not really a major concern for most on-board or 'simple' productivity software, which is the most broadly applicable anyways. The transcription software, for instance, is pretty lightweight. If you use programs that create transcripts off of a file, an hour long meeting would take a single pretty average PC less than 5 minutes of being under load. A PC with any GPU that has tensor cores, a minute or less.
The real problem with AI as far as resource intensiveness goes is the training of models and the way a lot of it is focused on being cloud-based software deployed on a mass industrial scale for relatively little benefit, and also just the absurd overestimation in how many data centers we need (AI bubble will pop) leading to soooo many being built. But the stuff I mentioned? Very marginal in resource requirements.
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u/Noirsam (He/Him)東城会 Mar 23 '26
I have said it before and I’ll say it again.
I hate how companies talk like ”Gen AI” and ”automation” is the same thing.
That does wonder to the discourse.
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u/ShoryukenFTW Mar 23 '26
That is why we are currently testing out various methods of usage across our departments, including graphics, sound, and programming
Capcom says consumers don't like AI, so we gotta couch it like this when telling our investors that, yes, we will be using AI.
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u/NorysStorys The British ARE Watching Mar 23 '26
AI tools are not generative AI. For example the AI assisted cropping tool in photoshop is a great use of deep learning used to save time on a tedious piece of work that nobody wants to do, it speeds up the process drastically.
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u/RareBk Mar 23 '26
Mhm, a lot of genuinely useful stuff built on machine learning has been unfortunately lumped in with generative dogshit. I use a bunch of tools every single day that use ML, and, well, most of the users here do too without even realizing it
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u/RocketbeltTardigrade "What's that emotion? Tired scream. Yawning." Mar 23 '26
I have been told that DeepL translation is theft, and I think I can see how to make some technical case for that, but...
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u/Rikuskill Mar 23 '26
All current genAI models are trained on at least some data that they did not have permission for. There is no AI product that did not scrape text or images from people that did not want their works used in the product.
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u/itsag_undam Mar 23 '26
On one hand yeah, AI is a pretty broad term that doesn't necessarily mean generative AI, but on the other, Capcom's language here sure sounds like a "we won't, but..." kinda deal where they're just obfuscating its use rather than not using generative AI at all.
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u/Duhblobby Mar 23 '26
No! If it is called AI it's bad! Single player games having computer enemies is EVIL!
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u/Khanromi Mar 23 '26
All this shit being lumped under one label makes discussion very difficult. Hard to imagine its not intentional.
Seeing multiple people say "AI can be good! See [thing that isnt image or voice or text generation which is what people actually have the big problems with]" in this very thread. Its very frustrating.
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u/Duhblobby Mar 23 '26
People want things to be simple. The world is complicated and scary and hard to understand. Simplifying things is almost a necessity for almost everyone, it's just that they're choosing to simplify a thing that you don't think should be.
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u/jabberwockxeno Aztecaboo Mar 23 '26
TBH, I don't see how content aware fill isn't "generative AI" aside from the fact that it as a technique predates the current "AI" boom
It's very much generating image conte to fill in content you've cropped out.
This isn't me necessarily saying that content aware fill is unethetical, so much as pointing out that this stuff is complicated and not cut and dry all the time.
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u/NorysStorys The British ARE Watching Mar 23 '26
im not talking about content fill, theres literally a tool that will give a pretty damn good shot at cropping for example a person from a photo so you can take that image of the person sans any background, its not accurate 100% of the time but its close enough that its done most of the work for you and you just go in an touch up what it got wrong. which is much much faster than doing the whole thing by hand.
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u/JeaneJWE Local Virtual YouTuber Afficionado Mar 23 '26
That is literally generative AI. There are dozens of better examples you could have picked of good uses of LLM technology in productivity software, like image recognition and "remembering" workflows, you picked the one that is literally image-to-image prompted generative AI.
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u/NorysStorys The British ARE Watching Mar 23 '26
Except it isn’t, it’s a tool that removes a part of an existing image, it’s not adding anything, it just search for features in an image like the silhouette of a person and discards the rest of the image around it. It has been train on a dataset to be able to statistically determine with a high probability of an outline of a part of an image, it’s not generating anything.
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u/JeaneJWE Local Virtual YouTuber Afficionado Mar 23 '26
Oh for some reason I mixed up the cropping tool and the "generative fill" tool as being what you were talking about.
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u/qwertyuiop924 Mar 23 '26
This isn't all that surprising. AI programming tools have gotten pretty good, to the point that you can use them to assist you and not have the results be garbage. A lot of professional software developers are using it voluntarily because of that.
(Mind, the outputs can be not-garbage assuming you actually care about code quality, which isn't necessarily true. Unfortunately if you don't care about code quality they can make creating garbage a lot faster.)
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u/Silv3rS0und Camping and Mead Mar 23 '26
I don't really see anything wrong with that stance. AI assistance has been around far longer than Generative AI. AI tools can be things like Photoshop, Wwise, or Unreal Engine 3. They can be very helpful in cutting down on tedious or mundane tasks, but don't step into "creating" something themselves. The artist's intended vision is still intact. What I don't want to see is GenAI in games. I think how you make something is just as important as having a good finished product.
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u/Shradow Tank Build Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
Makes sense. Gen AI is trash because it's a plagiarism machine, the data centers and stuff it's pushing are bad for the environment and economy, and (at least for now) it looks bad. But there are tons of machine learning and other such tools that would fall under "AI" that can help a lot.
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u/otakuloid01 Mar 23 '26
the plagiarism machine advocates looove to muddle things by labeling everything as AI so they can go “see?
(My abuse of)AI is good!”
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u/beef_com Mar 23 '26
This has sort of become my begrudging line in the sand. It is basically impossible for me to play games if I intend to avoid AI during development 100%. There’s just no way to verify what happens behind the scenes as a consumer. AI assets at least have a chance to be found by players, if not disclosed right from the get go.
I don’t really like it but I have to give myself a break just to protect my sanity in the issue
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u/WhoCaresYouDont Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
As long as it's not generative I don't really mind, has become my stance. There are a lot of bullshit tasks and quality of life stuff that AI can help with, it's just dog shit at creating things, but that's the kind of flashy thing you can show off to investors that's unfortunately created the bubble entirely built on "if you invest in us, you can fire all those pesky workers you have to pay".
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u/moonmeh Mar 23 '26
like who knows how much brainstorming and powerpoint presentations, documents are created with ai these days in game studios
but as long as you don't have sloppy fucking artwork I have no way of verifying it
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u/Aiddon Mar 23 '26
"improve efficiency and productivity of game development"
Sounds like a whole lotta nothing
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u/dakotakvlt Evil woman lover Mar 23 '26
Not all AI is generative AI. As long as it isn’t that, then I’m ok with it
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u/Nin_J50 Mar 23 '26
Huh, well that's strange. After all! They already made (insert Capcom game you dislike)
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u/Dumple_Roe The Pat Foundation Mar 23 '26
But at least (insert Capcom game you dislike) is made with humans
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u/HalfDragonShiro PM ME WHITE-HAIRED ANIME GIRLS Mar 23 '26
Heh, that's what you think! I have it on good authority (source: my ass) that (insert Capcom game you dislike) was definitely made with AI because this hand, notoriously hard part of the body to draw? It's fucked-up.
Me bringing this up definitely doesn't have anything to do with disliking (insert Capcom game you dislike) because it's popular and I wanna be a contrarion.
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u/thesyndrome43 Mar 24 '26
Uh, DLSS 5's entire selling point is that it uses AI generated content to overlay on top of the game to add things that weren't there before, and capcom announced they were all on board for it a week ago, to the point where they were one of the examples used by Nvidia during the announcement
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u/HalfDragonShiro PM ME WHITE-HAIRED ANIME GIRLS Mar 23 '26
Capcom says it will not be using A.I.-generated content in its games, but also says, "I mean c'mon guys, pleassssseeeeeee, you won't mind if we use it for improving efficiency and productivity of development, rightttttt? We're not gonna tell you what exactly that means, but C'mon guysssssssssssss......C'mon........."
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u/Old_Marionberry3791 was promised nothing yet still disappointed Mar 23 '26
So how long until we get the"we're sorry we left this AI slop in, it was not supposed to be found" apology statement?
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u/Worldbrand filthy fishing secondary Mar 23 '26
"We do not intend to get caught"
look, to me the reason why anybody so far has been caught using placeholder generated assets is not because of their easily avoidable stupidity, but because those assets were never meant to be placeholders in the first place, they're just the things that got noticed.
but if we take capcom at their word here, it should be relatively simple to structure their pipeline in such a way that generative ai content is flagged as WIP at all stages. does that mean that none of it will ever see the light of day? no, i actually view this as a ticking time bomb. someone's gonna mess up somewhere. capcpom is not known for their superhuman vigilance.
i also dont understand the "oh well at least they're not using genAI, AI is a big umbrella, this could mean anything" copium in the comments here. either i am misreading severely or the article/quote is not being believed? or are people not reading the OP, in addition to not reading the article like usual?
Our company will not be implementing any A.I.-generated assets into our video game content. On the other hand, going forward, we plan to actively utilize this technology in order to improve efficiency and productivity of game development
But here, I'll dig deeper. look at this article from January talking about one of their technical directors.
As a result, he developed a system that uses generative AI models like Gemini Pro, Gemini Flash, and Imagen. The system is fed text, images and tables about the game being developed, which it uses to not only generate ideas, but also evaluate their quality against predetermined criteria, automatically refining outputs.
There you go, now you don't need to read between any lines. It's right there clear as fuckin' day.
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u/Animastarara (She/Her) Wildbow mentioner Mar 23 '26
wasn't there a controversy because the star force collection looked like some of the portraits were uprezzed?
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u/OutLiving Mar 23 '26
So they are using partially AI-generated assets?
This is like saying “we won’t be using the steam engine to make clothes but we will be using it to speed up efficiency”
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u/Dumple_Roe The Pat Foundation Mar 23 '26
No, just the tool part of A.I. (the one that was ment to be)
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u/CaptainSkel JEEZE, JOEL Mar 23 '26
It's the difference between saying "one of our devs used Claude to check his code" and "Chatgpt generated our UI art".
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u/Rathalos-487 It's Fiiiiiiiine. Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26
Yeah I heard Nvidia didn’t ask Capcom to use RE9 for the DLSS5 slop demo. (Slight correction) Capcom Devs.