Neverness to Everness Faces Fresh AI Art Scandal Over Watermarked Seahorse
Neverness to Everness is again at the center of a genAI controversy after players in China spotted a watermark from Doubao AI on a seahorse artwork in the 1.3 update, released to China a week early ahead of the global rollout. Hotta Games had previously said AI assets were limited to backgrounds and not to characters or stories, and this latest slip renews criticism of hidden AI-generated art in the game.