{"id":84077,"date":"2026-06-07T14:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84077"},"modified":"2026-06-07T15:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T19:36:57","slug":"crazy-taxi-world-tour-uses-generative-ai-sega-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84077","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Taxi: World Tour Uses Generative AI, Sega Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sega has disclosed that Crazy Taxi: World Tour is using AI-generated content, according to the game&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/2924540\/Crazy_Taxi_World_Tour\/\">Steam page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The corporation states, &#8220;We use generative AI as a support tool for developers, aiming to provide better content to our users and enable developers to focus more on creative tasks.&#8221; It goes on to clarify that AI has not been used in reference to the performers in the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is the first major game from Sega&#8217;s upcoming slate confirmed to be using generative AI, since executives stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/sega-says-it-will-leverage-ai-in-game-development-when-appropriate\/1100-6536698\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/sega-says-it-will-leverage-ai-in-game-development-when-appropriate\/1100-6536698\/\">it would &#8220;leverage&#8221; the technology where appropriate<\/a>, during a Q&amp;A session after the company\u2019s Q2 financial results presentation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first game from Sega confirmed to use generative AI was free-to-play title Sega Football Club Champions released earlier this year, which currently sits with &#8220;Mostly Negative&#8221; reviews on Steam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sega is far from the only company to declare its use of generative AI, which remains a controversial subject in the industry. Other Japanese studios, like Square Enix and Capcom, are enthusiastically embracing the technology. Capcom did however previously state that it would not use any AI-generated art, following the backlash to Nvidia\u2019s new AI-powered DLSS 5 rendering of Grace from Resident Evil Requiem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sega has disclosed that Crazy Taxi: World Tour is using AI-generated content, according to the game&#8217;s Steam page. The corporation states, &#8220;We use generative AI as a support tool for developers, aiming to provide better content to our users and enable developers to focus more on creative tasks.&#8221; It goes on to clarify that AI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":84079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84077"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84080,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84077\/revisions\/84080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}