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Roblox's new AI creator tools conjure all the wonder and scepticism of a magic show

Eurogamer talks to Roblox Studio head Stefano Corazza about the team's new AI-powered creation tools: Texture Generator and Avatar Auto Setup.

In a few seconds, the textureless video game object is now a fully textured and truly hideous backpack made of green-and-brown camouflage material, with sparkly gold buckles. The usual caveats of AI aside, in actual practice this all looks about how you'd expect for Roblox: various art styles and texture qualities mashed together, slightly shonky animations and in this case, a migraine of colour and angles swirling around in the loosely fantasy-themed fairground backdrop for good measure. As the industry has hit its recent walls, the topic of growth has also become a growing concern, with this notion of being playable on the lowest possible hardware specs understandably gaining traction.

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