Overview
- A mandatory notice on the game's Steam page states the team uses generative AI tools to help develop some in-game assets.
- Players are circulating examples of campaign and endgame calling cards that resemble recent AI-generated Ghibli-style imagery.
- In a statement to PCGamesN, Activision said digital and AI tools are used to empower teams and that the creative process remains led by studio staff.
- Neither Activision nor Call of Duty studios have specified which individual assets were created with AI, and Eurogamer has requested clarification.
- Community reaction ranges from frustration over AI content in a full-price release to indifference, with critics citing past suspected AI artwork such as a six-fingered zombie loading screen.