PlayStation appears to have released AI generated PSN avatars for participants of its 2025 Advent Calendar program.
The official PlayStation website has launched its 2025 Advent Calendar (via Reset Era member J-Soul), asking fans to take part in a 24-day program that offers rewards and other surprises. Users are required to login and register once, allowing them to secure daily chances to win prizes until December 24, 2025, by watching ads.
Earning tickets by watching ads will also reward users with free avatars. As evident from the above screenshot, these PSN avatars are all AI generated. A closer examination of the seemingly Japanese characters behind the “Neon Brawler” PSN avatar reveals that they are merely random symbols that don’t belong to the language.
A few months ago, people on social media raised concern over the PlayStation Store allowing games with blatant use of AI generated content to be published on its storefront. Some titles that were highlighted include Brainrot: FIghting, Br Br Patapim, Lirili Larila, and Brainrot Tung Tung Sahur. It’s fairly easy to find errors typical of AI generated content in the artwork used for the aforementioned titles. For example, in the background image for the store page for Brainrot: FIghting, the character on the right is seen with four fingers on their left hand and the intended five on their right. This is a common error with content generated using AI.
Similarly, Xbox Principal Development Lead Mike Matsel shared a hiring message some time ago that included an image featuring blatant AI generated artwork. The image showed an individual working on their desk, using a keyboard and a display monitor next to it. A quick look at the monitor showed that it was displaying output at its rear end. Such errors are typical of images generated by AI. People in the comments section of the hiring post pointed out the obvious, and also called out the recruiter for not noticing it.
