Crazy Taxi Producer Clarifies AI Use as 'Ideation Tool,' Not Content Generation

In the ongoing negotiation between human craft and machine assistance, Sega's Kenji Kanno stepped forward to draw a careful line. The disclosure of generative AI use in Crazy Taxi: World Tour had unsettled fans who feared the soul of a beloved franchise might be quietly outsourced to an algorithm. Kanno's clarification — that AI served only as a fleeting prompt during early ideation, with artists traveling the world before and refining everything after — is less a defense than a reminder that tools do not make art; people do.