{"id":177063,"date":"2026-03-27T12:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177063\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T12:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:47:12","slug":"pragmatas-new-york-looks-ai-generated-on-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/177063\/","title":{"rendered":"Pragmata&#8217;s New York Looks AI-Generated on Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFor Pragmata, we set the premise as \u2018a fake New York generated by AI,\u2019\u201d said Cho (via <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/pragmatas-newly-revealed-new-york-stage-was-painstakingly-made-by-human-developers-to-look-ai-generated-according-to-director\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Automation<\/a>). \u201cWhen familiar locations appear, players can relate more easily. On top of that, to make it clear that this isn\u2019t the real New York, we wanted something slightly distorted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt mirrors reality, but its unique appeal comes from the setting errors and how they feel out of place, such as taxis sinking into floors, or buses sprouting from walls. Although the premise is that it generated by AI, actually, our human developers painstakingly worked to incorporate mechanisms that express this AI-like uncanny feel,\u201d Oyama added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFor Pragmata, we set the premise as \u2018a fake New York generated by AI,\u2019\u201d said Cho (via Automation).&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,12,56,26209],"class_list":["post-177063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}