AI, Arts & Creativity News — 2026-10-25 (Sun)

Overview

Game, music and film headlines dominated the past 24 hours. Creative Assembly repudiated AI art in a game release, and an indie developer removed AI-generated voice lines from their game (Simulation Daily, PC Gamer). Spotify plans an AI label and spam filter, while UMG licensed a gaming-focused AI music platform (Mashable, Digital Music News).

Art and image generation

- Creative Assembly took responsibility for Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition and repudiated AI art (Simulation Daily). - Several items from the 小豆島町 source are AI art generator and anime-style AI art pages, including one about "Ethics" in the title. The headlines show only that such pages exist and give no news content (小豆島町).

Music

- Spotify is to introduce an AI label and a spam filter to stop what the outlet calls AI music slop (Mashable). - Chase & Status spoke about the upside of AI for music (Reuters). - UMG licensed Tyger, a gaming-focused AI music platform (Digital Music News).

Film, video and animation

- The director of "Wildwood" knows AI cannot do what they do, according to the headline (The New York Times). - NBC News ran a behind-the-scenes look at an AI movie studio (NBC News).

Design and architecture

- Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has what Wccftech calls a surprisingly positive outlook on generative AI. The headline quotes: "We'll Have Opportunities to Think About What's Truly Important" (Wccftech). - MensXP reports on how AI-generated backgrounds are changing men's digital photography (MensXP).

Games

- An indie developer scrubbed their game of AI-generated voice lines. The developer had previously described the technology as "anti-human and anti-art" (PC Gamer). - Gamers are using AI to put popular titles such as Halo and GTA online for free, and companies are scrambling to shut them down (New York Post). - SecNews.gr covers how AI is used to detect cheaters in games (SecNews.gr). 【Museums, exhibitions and cultural institutions】 - China Daily discusses rethinking science museums in a future shaped by AI (China Daily).

Creative work and creators

- JournalArta reports that the creator of Super Mario broke their silence on AI (JournalArta). - Khaleej Times asks whether AI can replace human animators, with a Pixar veteran and a Japanese studio chief explaining (Khaleej Times). 【Japanese art, creativity and AI】 - The items are AI illustration and image generation sites, an "AI anime girl" page and an "AI girlfriend anime" page. They carry no news content (小豆島町, FC東京 official website).

Statements by key figures

- Shigeru Miyamoto (Nintendo): the headline quotes "We'll Have Opportunities to Think About What's Truly Important" (Wccftech). Another headline says the Super Mario creator broke their silence on AI, but the headline gives no content (JournalArta). - The director of "Wildwood": knows AI cannot do what they do (The New York Times). 【Integrated analysis: what is happening】 The same pattern appears in games, music and film: makers and platforms are drawing lines between AI use they accept and AI use they reject. Creative Assembly repudiated AI art, and an indie developer removed AI voice lines they had earlier criticized (Simulation Daily, PC Gamer). Spotify is adding an AI label and a spam filter, while UMG licensed an AI music platform aimed at games (Mashable, Digital Music News). This suggests the industry may be moving toward labeling and licensed channels rather than a blanket ban or blanket acceptance. In film, the Wildwood director and the Pixar-veteran discussion frame AI as limited in what it can replace (The New York Times, Khaleej Times). For readers, the useful distinction is that rejection in the headlines is aimed at specific uses, such as art assets, voice lines and spam, while AI music tied to games is being licensed. The headlines do not say how these decisions were reached, so this reading is an inference.

What to watch

- Whether Spotify's AI label and spam filter are implemented and how they are applied (likely visible in later coverage). - Whether other game studios follow Creative Assembly in repudiating AI art or follow UMG in licensing AI music for games. - What Miyamoto says in full, since the headlines carry only a short quote and a note that they broke their silence.