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In the 2025 report, the most commonly cited use of AI was the generation of visual assets and images, followed by story and text generation, and finally programming support.
So assets and story are to go first.
We automated the art, so humans can focus on labor.
We're working on automating the labor too. Turns out art was just easier.
If art isn't perfect, we can shrug. If something goes wrong with manufacturing, programming, whatever, much smaller issues can shut things down. Art brooks a greater margin of "error".
Hold your horses, making by hand another 1000 cheap ugly stock waifu gacha images is not art. It is and was slop.
Most j-games that have ads that reach me were slop since forever. Same story, same looking girls, same gameplay.
It's like bean mouth with animated movies and cartoons.
It turns out that most people weren't that creative, anyway.
I mean, that makes perfect sense. Game development is mostly programming, so if you're an aspiring game developer these are probably inconvenient bits you want to get out of the way rather than what you're there for.
Game development is mostly programming
Is it though? Especially when you're making use of an existing engine.
Well, I have a big enough backlog to never run out of games if I live to break world records, so fuck all the new shit let the industry die.
2026 is so depressing, lol. I've noticed this with some (non-gaming) Korean media, where the writing feels very AI (and I'm kind of suspecting a lot of it is considering East Asia's quick embrasure of it).
All of this is easy to legislate (not necessarily fix because people will just lie and face no consequence if they're rich). Ban generative AI for commercial purposes.
Anything with art, being that games, illustration, even writing feels tainted these days. Those of us who don't want gen AI are going to have to find ways to form our own communities (and hope we can trust the majority of people in them).
On the bright side, I'm suddenly feeling okay with not getting to play a lot of the Switch 2 games.
Where Winds Meet is a Chinese free-to-play RPG that was briefly popular earlier this year. The devs actually considered it a selling point that NPCs and sidequests were entirely LLM-driven. Look up a video if you want to see some of the most awkward and cringe-inducing dialog this side of Soulstorm.
i can barely find a gaming blog these days that aren't: written by AI, clickbait, or videos (also AI)
journalism is a lost art
Most national medias are running AI services to translate "important" international stories.
I wish they'd spend less time running international stories (I know it's for the boomers incapable of reading English) and more time on doing proper journalism
The one country known almost specifically for it's art and music, lol
Is really sad
This seems weird to me. Isn't Japanese culture obsessed with aesthetics? Like when you buy fast food there it actually looks neat and clean like in advertisements, and you might spend a small fortune on a couple of strawberries but they'll be the brightest, most flawless specimens you'll see in your lifetime. Even cheap throwaway meals are packaged like a professional food stylist went over them.
That focus on perfection seems incongruent with the slop machine that churns out soulless, derivative, and often obviously flawed 'art'.
Having lived in Japan for over a decade, I think the west generally over-elevates/-mystifies Japan. Capitalists gonna capitalist. They can do more work with fewer people and make more money. Most Japanese consumers also do not care at all about generative AI. It's in the train stations, city offices, and everywhere else as a part of the normal.
There's a big difference between what's happening in the commercial world and art circles. I can't speak for food but with regards to the topic here, Japan has a huge creator market and that market responds very differently. A year back, their biggest creator fair had a few "artists" selling AI "art" but essentially no one was interested and they hardly sold anything while others had sprawling queues. This year there was pretty much 0 as a result.
Yeah, it does seem inconsistent with the view that anything AI touches must obviously look awful.
Self selecting bias. If all AI is bad, then if it's good it's not ai by definition.
My point is, probably a lot more content is ai than people think, but they don't notice.
Yeah, if the AI gets curated, it is almost impossible to notice.
And all AI should be curated. A human has to check everything for halucinations.
Maybe they have high standards for what they generate, use the models as "fillers" or "finishers" (broadly adding details or patterns to a base sketch, then touching up on any errors or ungeneratable details), or rely on models they've vetted for consistent quality? I doubt they're all using a piss filter chatgpt text to image gen.
Japanese creatives are now heavily split on LLMs. What with half taken to defend their work with watermarks and proofs of timelapses and manual processes, and there's fierce loyalty for Miyazaki et. al. While others are either playing with dozens of LLMs to produce even animations, churning out thirst traps by the dozen, and still others "enhancing" game screenshots of their player characters in poses and skimpy clothing.
So its really just the same "actual artist" vs "horny gooner dumbass" split that has plagued Japanese media for decades 😭
Have you considered that wherever you're from is the weird place? They are much more optimistic about AI in Asia.
you might spend a small fortune on a couple of strawberries
Isn't that mostly because their farms are so far behind and producing such low volumes that they can only survive with artisanal hand picked/whatever products
Looking it up, while the high-end gift fruits are insanely expensive (hundreds of dollars), regular fruit seems to be widely available and costs the equivalent of a dollar or two. So it's more expensive than in Western countries, but not exorbitantly so. They also tend to be unnaturally unblemished even on the low end.
I wonder how much produce gets thrown away due to a single bruise or spot. I'm hoping it gets turned into drinks or purée for desserts or something instead.
Anything that grows out of the ground is expensive in Japan in general, so it's not just the strawberries. You can easily get a situation when making food at home where a simple vegetable salad is as expensive as the rest of the meal combined.
I bought a $5 apple for the kids when we visited. Damn fine apple. Bought one for me too because I got jealous. Made me actually appreciate fruit for what it is; rather than something bruised, brown, and taken for granted.
How much of those are imported?
I can't prove it, but I've felt like a lot of the girls from gacha games have been generated for a while now.
Oh good, I can focus on only 15% of Japanese game devs! That's a relief!
Yes, this tracks. My wife's at a company that has both JP and US branches and the JP side seems a lot more chill with generative AI (although they learned already not to use it in production, only internal visuals and planning). It's rather unfortunate, although hard to say if they would have hired an illustrator or just gone without visuals.
Well, damn. I guess I'm gonna have to be way more critical of which Japanese developers I support. Or stop buying Japanese games altogether.
Like every region, there's developers who love throwing up asset flips, and there's developers who make stuff out of passion.
I remember one of the favorite comparisons of AI generated art I saw in a video on the subject is as an expensive replacement for stock footage (and in game development I guess it would be stock assets).
Yeah, guess I'll stop buying new Japanese releases
I don't need any new games to be happy. I won't by slop out of pure spite.
