{"id":301374,"date":"2025-12-06T01:20:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301374\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T01:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T01:20:15","slug":"sega-will-carefully-assess-appropriate-use-cases-when-it-comes-to-leveraging-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/301374\/","title":{"rendered":"Sega Will &#8220;Carefully Assess Appropriate Use Cases&#8221; When It Comes To &#8220;Leveraging AI&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Sega Will &quot;Carefully Assess Appropriate Use Cases&quot; When It Comes To AI 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/95589e4db57d8\/sega-will-carefully-assess-appropriate-use-cases-when-it-comes-to-ai-1.large.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/sega-will-carefully-assess-appropriate-use-cases-when-it-comes-to-ai-1.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"531\" alt=\"Sega Will &quot;Carefully Assess Appropriate Use Cases&quot; When It Comes To AI 1\"\/><\/a> Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IDWPublishing\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sega \/ IDW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While rivals such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/10\/ea-is-diving-headfirst-into-generative-ai-with-new-partnership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Arts<\/a> and <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2025\/11\/ubisoft-is-all-in-on-generative-ai-says-its-as-big-a-leap-in-tech-as-the-shift-to-3d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ubisoft<\/a> have jumped into the world of Generative AI development with both feet, not every company in the games industry is willing to throw caution to the wind.<\/p>\n<p>During a Q&amp;A session following its recent Q2 financial results, Sega\u2018s top brass addressed the use of AI when it comes to making games (thanks, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/sega-says-it-will-use-ai-in-game-development-but-only-in-appropriate-use-cases\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VGC<\/a>) and how it will help tackle the increasing costs of development.<\/p>\n<p>Sega&#8217;s response was as follows:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rather than fully following the trend toward the large-scale development, we will also pursue efficiency improvements, such as leveraging AI. However, as AI adoption can face strong resistance in creative areas such as character creation, we will proceed by carefully assess appropriate use cases, such as streamlining development processes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, while Sega certainly isn&#8217;t against turning to AI to streamline production, it doesn&#8217;t look like it will be embracing it with quite the same vigour as other companies.<\/p>\n<p>While Generative AI models are powerful tools, they are often trained on the work of artists, musicians, filmmakers, and animators without permission or remuneration. <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/10\/openai-is-trying-to-get-sued-nintendo-ip-floods-sora-2-video-generation-app\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Many models have been found to produce<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/10\/openai-is-trying-to-get-sued-nintendo-ip-floods-sora-2-video-generation-app\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">copyright-infringing results with minimal effort.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo has previously stated that it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2024\/07\/dont-worry-nintendo-likely-wont-utilise-generative-ai-in-its-game-development\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">doesn&#8217;t currently intend<\/a> to use Generative AI in its own games, citing &#8220;issues with intellectual property rights&#8221; as one of the main reasons for avoiding it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/sega-says-it-will-use-ai-in-game-development-but-only-in-appropriate-use-cases\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/sega-says-it-will-use-ai-in-game-development-but-only-in-appropriate-use-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\">videogameschronicle.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753553110_566_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Damien McFerran\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media&#8217;s sites from an editorial perspective. He&#8217;s also the editor of <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timeextension.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Time Extension<\/a>, the network&#8217;s newest site, which \u2013 paradoxically \u2013 is all about gaming&#8217;s past glories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Sega \/ IDW While rivals such as Electronic Arts and Ubisoft have jumped into the world of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,214,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-301374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-sega","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}