Nintendo denies the use of generative AI in Mario Kart World's development following fan concerns. Controversy has surrounded the game due to things like its $80 price tag.

Mario Kart World is the lead-off title for the Nintendo Switch 2, and the publisher made it clear that generative AI played no part in it.

That’s what the Mario Kart moment exposed. It doesn’t matter if AI was used or not – what matters is that it looked like it was. Perception, in this case, became the product.

Though Mario Kart isn’t exactly a franchise known for realism, some YouTubers posited that Nintendo used generative AI to produce the image. (Credit: Nintendo) ...

More like this Every Mario Kart Game, Ranked Rumors began to swirl when a Nintendo Treehouse livestream gave us a closer peek at the upcoming racer a few weeks back. Eagle-eyed fans pointed out ...

Mario Kart's Rubber-band AI has been the biggest cheating piece of crap since the invention of the series.<BR><BR>I haven't played the Wii version, but the GC version made me invent new curse words.

Adaptive AI isn't completely new to the franchise. The older Mario Kart games had rubberbanding, where the slower opponents would artificially speed up to catch up to the player.

Mattel showed off the Mario Kart edition of its Hot Wheels AI Intelligent Race System at Nintendo's lounge during San Diego Comic-Con last week, which features a track smart enough to keep Mario ...

It was security researcher stack smashing who achieved fully automated driving of Mario Kart. Mr. stacksmashing said that he was impressed with the project 'Training artificial intelligence (AI ...

Though Mario Kart isn’t exactly a franchise known for realism, some YouTubers posited that Nintendo used generative AI to produce the image.