Insomniac Confirms Wolverine Doesn’t Contain AI-Generated Assets After A Weird-Looking Sign Goes Viral

Over the previous few days or so, a strange-looking toilet register Marvel’s Wolverine, the latest big PS5 superhero game from Insomniac, has gone viral on-line as some followers and creators questioned if it was AI-generated. And whereas the signal does look a bit sloppy, Insomniac has defined that it’s only a bug and that they are going to be fixing it quickly.

Since launching earlier this week solely on PlayStation 5, Insomniac’s Wolverine has acquired a lukewarm reception from followers and critics. And for some on-line, particularly content material creators, the sport has turn out to be a gold mine for them to poke at and dunk on. Every little thing from the sport’s story, to its cutscenes, to its use of impossible-to-fail quick time events has been put underneath a microscope and shared on-line for hundreds of thousands of views. (None of that has stopped it from quickly becoming one of PlayStation’s best-selling PS5 games.) And the newest instance of that could be a single toilet signal that appears all garbled and sloppy.

A TikTok went viral earlier this week, accumulating over 700,000 views whereas showcasing the odd-looking signal, which seems to indicate a number of male stick figures clipping into one another. The Twitter account RockSolid shared screenshots of the strange bathroom sign and posted: “I don’t wanna accuse anybody, however did Insomniac actually use AI of their $ 300 million Wolverine sport???” That tweet has over 315k views. Doubtless sensing this was presumably going to turn out to be a a lot greater drawback, Insomniac’s group and advertising and marketing director, James Stevenson, squashed the rumors and accusations bluntly on Twitter.

“No,” posted Stevenson in response to RockSolid’s viral tweet. “This can be a UV map bug, and now we have a repair coming. There are not any AI-generated property in Marvel’s Wolverine.”

And yeah, that clarification makes numerous sense to me. Should you take a look at the signal in several screenshots and from totally different angles, its look shifts, nearly like textures are colliding. It doesn’t appear like the same old AI slop we usually see. In addition to, why would Insomniac use AI instruments to generate one thing so easy? In reality, they seemingly already had this toilet signal someplace of their asset folder after recreating New York Metropolis in a number of Spider-Man video games. Plus, nothing else on this sport seems to be or appears AI-generated.

With Wolverine so underneath the microscope proper now, it was solely a matter of time earlier than a small texture bug obtained accused of being an AI-generated asset. And in 2026, any form of strange-looking piece of artwork or textual content can rapidly draw accusations of AI slop. As somebody who hates AI-generated artwork and textual content with a ardour, I also try to warn people to not throw out accusations so willy-nilly. It may actually trigger issues for artists, and simply makes it simpler for actual AI slop to slide by the cracks. Fortunately, AI just isn’t the difficulty right here, and Insomniac can have this minor visible bug mounted quickly.