According to over a dozen current and former employees, Life Is Strange developer Deck Nine’s management has long let a toxic work culture fester at the studio, including protecting multiple abusive leaders, encouraging crunch, and allowing bullying of individuals advocating internally for more authentic representation.
Given my experience so far, it would not surprise me if the assets were AI generated. If not manually controlled really well, those models can quickly become racist, like that Twitter bot.
But big ouff. What a situation for the devs to be in, more so because of how will received True Colours is in spite of these woes.