The Kingdom Hearts AI Art Controversy Has Be Cleared Up
Key Points:
- Square Enix announced a new Kingdom Hearts Collection [I~III] for the Switch 2, bringing the trilogy to Nintendo fans for the first time.
- The North American box art sparked controversy due to an error showing Donald Duck with the wrong number of fingers on his left hand.
- Speculation arose that generative AI might have been used to fill in parts of the artwork, causing the mistake.
- Square Enix clarified that no generative AI was involved and attributed the error to human mistake by the development team.
- The company acknowledged the feedback and confirmed the visuals were created without AI assistance.