{"id":776760,"date":"2026-09-20T12:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T12:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/776760\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T12:02:09","slug":"wolverine-developer-insomniac-denies-using-generative-ai-after-fans-spot-strange-restroom-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/776760\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolverine developer Insomniac denies using generative AI after fans spot strange restroom sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wolverine developer Insomniac has denied using generative AI after fans jumped on social media to share screenshots of a bizarre restroom sign.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to cool speculation, community director James Stevenson was quick to deny the icon was generated via AI, insisting it was a &#8220;UV map bug&#8221; that messed up the symbol.<\/p>\n<p>To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/p>\n<p>Manage cookie settings <\/p>\n<p>Marvel&#8217;s Wolverine &#8211; Official &#8216;The Best There Is&#8217; Trailer.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UkdeqCpP5Xc\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No. This is a UV map bug and we have a fix coming,&#8221; Stevenson insisted on X\/Twitter. &#8220;There are no AI generated assets in Marvel\u2019s Wolverine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;UV bug? So someone only UV&#8217;ed half the sign?&#8221; one commenter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FrellingHazmot\/status\/2101390026588201375\" rel=\"nofollow\">replied<\/a>. &#8220;Would love to see how they laid out those UV&#8217;s for a flat sign then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">No. This is a UV map bug and we have a fix coming. There are no AI generated assets in Marvel\u2019s Wolverine.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 James Stevenson (@JamesStevenson) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JamesStevenson\/status\/2101048325067751572?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To see this content please enable targeting cookies.<\/p>\n<p>Manage cookie settings<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Uh&#8230; I probably would have just blamed AI, to be honest,&#8221; another <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/shadesofsilver\/status\/2101342834078978212\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;Look, I made you an updated bathroom sign. Took me 10 minutes. It&#8217;s yours if you need it, we can work something out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Responding to other comments about launch issues, including Wolverine&#8217;s Scent Trailers and Audio Sense indicators, which were causing crashing, Stevenson said: &#8220;They are tied to other systems in places and with so many people playing we have to be deliberate in testing to not introduce new bugs or break people. Thank you for patience&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wolverine&#8217;s characterisation is a bright spot in this otherwise underwhelming, old-school romp that reminds us how far action games have come,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/marvels-wolverine-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">we wrote in Eurogamer&#8217;s Wolverine review<\/a>, awarding it a middling three out of five stars.<\/p>\n<p>Last week we reported that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/level-5-ceo-apologises-generative-ai-professor-layton-yo-kai-watch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CEO of Professor Layton developer Level-5 apologised after confirming that generative AI was used in the studio&#8217;s recent showcase<\/a>. Level-5 is not alone, of course &#8211; many other game companies, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/pubg-and-inzoi-publisher-krafton-declares-itself-an-ai-first-company-placing-ai-at-the-centre-of-problem-solving\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Krafton<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/after-chasing-nfts-and-the-metaverse-square-enix-wants-generative-ai-to-do-70-of-its-qa-by-2027\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Square Enix<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/ai-is-the-very-core-of-our-business-says-ea-ceo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EA<\/a>, and more, have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/over-half-of-japanese-game-companies-are-using-ai-in-development-states-report-from-tokyo-games-show-organiser\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">invested heavily in AI tech<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wolverine developer Insomniac has denied using generative AI after fans jumped on social media to share screenshots of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-776760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776760","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=776760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}