AI, Arts & Creativity News — 2026-10-19 (Mon) Evening News

Overview

Platforms and studios drew lines around AI in music, film and anime, with YouTube Music flagging AI tracks, Deezer letting users remove them, and a "Dirty Dancing" sequel avoiding AI (PCMag Middle East, AOL.com). Game industry leaders offered opposing views on AI's effect on gaming (Polygon.com, GamerBraves). In Japan, manga and anime AI projects advanced through a quantum computing demonstration, a contest and a publishing partnership (月刊「事業構想」オンライン, PR TIMES, Media Innovation).

Image and art generation

- Dataland used Riedel Bolero for communications across its immersive AI art museum (Inavate). - Diverse and SM C&C are partnering on an artist IP and AI avatar business using Creta (THE ELEC, Korea Electronics Industry Media). - Universidad de Córdoba (UCO) published a piece on tools for creating anime-style AI art (Universidad de Córdoba (UCO)). - Graphic design students say they are waiting out the wave of AI advertising (CBC).

Music

- YouTube Music now flags AI tracks, and Deezer will let users remove them entirely (PCMag Middle East). - An AI-generated hit raises questions for K-pop (동아일보).

Film, video and anime

- The "Dirty Dancing" sequel will honor Patrick Swayze's legacy without AI technology (AOL.com). The producer also answered the AI question on how the sequel will honor Swayze (Film-News.co.uk). - Anime studio Felix Film edited a job listing that had encouraged generative AI (Anime News Network). - Christopher Raeburn launched a comeback for his signature label with a new AI film (FashionNetwork India).

Design and architecture

- A GameDev.net piece argues that the less you tell AI, the more it designs for you (GameDev.net).

Games

- Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney predicts a golden age of gaming driven by AI (Global Sources). Polygon.com reports he believes a "Golden Age Of Gaming" is imminent because of AI (Polygon.com). - Ken Kutaragi, described as the father of PlayStation, says gaming has failed to keep up with AI advances (GamerBraves). 【Museums, exhibitions and cultural institutions】 No notable developments. 【Creators and the creative workplace】 - MIW is hosting a free AI webinar for radio content creators (news.radio-online.com). - TikTok shared five tips for users to be more creative with AI (VOI.ID).

Japan: art, creativity and AI

- TOPPAN and Keio University demonstrated manga and anime image generation using quantum computing and AI (月刊「事業構想」オンライン). - Asahi Shimbun's Atsushi Obara column "Animage Don" discusses Shaun the Sheep and AI (Asahi Shimbun). - Dāyasu, a former Japan Patent Office examiner and patent attorney, was named a judge for the AI manga contest "MangaNow Award 2026" (PR TIMES, Koubo). - IMAKAI partnered with Mag2 (Mag Mag) to turn paid email newsletters into manga through the AI manga service "MangaNow" (Media Innovation).

Statements by key figures

- Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, predicts a golden age of gaming driven by AI (Global Sources, Polygon.com). - Ken Kutaragi, described as the father of PlayStation, says gaming has failed to keep up with AI advances (GamerBraves). 【Integrated analysis: what is happening】 The same pattern appears in several places: AI use is being labeled, declared or disclaimed rather than simply adopted. YouTube Music flags AI tracks and Deezer allows their removal (PCMag Middle East). The "Dirty Dancing" sequel is publicly framed as made without AI (AOL.com, Film-News.co.uk). Felix Film edited a job listing that had encouraged generative AI (Anime News Network). Together these suggest that whether AI was used is becoming information that audiences and workers expect, and creators and platforms appear to be responding to that expectation.

At the same time, adoption continues where AI is the stated product: an AI art museum (Inavate), an AI avatar business (THE ELEC), an AI fashion film (FashionNetwork India), and several Japanese manga projects (PR TIMES, Media Innovation). For readers, the likely implication is that the market is splitting into AI-labeled and AI-free offerings, so a decision to use or avoid AI is itself a visible positioning choice. This is inference from headlines only.

Game industry leaders disagree on direction: Sweeney expects a golden age, while Kutaragi says gaming has not kept up with AI advances (Polygon.com, GamerBraves). The two statements are not directly comparable, since the headlines do not give their reasoning. Students' wait-and-see stance toward AI advertising (CBC) and the K-pop question raised by an AI-generated hit (동아일보) show uncertainty among people entering or working in creative fields.

What to watch

Whether other music platforms follow YouTube Music and Deezer in flagging or removing AI tracks. This is a possibility, not something reported. 2. Whether more studios and productions state publicly whether they use AI, as in the "Dirty Dancing" and Felix Film cases. 3. Whether the Japanese AI manga projects, including the "MangaNow Award 2026" contest and the Mag2 partnership, expand further.