Level 5 president apologizes for AI use in Professor Layton presentation

Kotaku reports that Level 5 president Akihiro Hino apologized for a Professor Layton presentation that incorporated AI processing. Hino said the experiment was intended to make the presentation “more spectacular.” According to Kotaku, he emphasized that scenarios, character designs and basic settings in the company's released works are created by people. He described its AI efficiency goals as mainly digitizing human-made creative work—for example, accurately converting original artwork into polygons.