This statement was made in response to the leak of an AI-generated review of Resident Evil: Requiem.
Metacritic is one of many companies trying to navigate a world increasingly flooded with AI-generated content. Review aggregation sites have always focused on aggregating scores and citations from a large number of media outlets, but allowing non-human generation can taint the work. That almost happened with the recent Resident Evil: Requiem, and now Metacritic is working to make sure it never happens again.
“Metacritic has been a respected review source for a quarter of a century and has maintained a rigorous vetting process when adding new publications to our critic list,” Metacritic co-founder Mark Doyle said in an email to various gaming outlets. “However, in certain circumstances, such as when a publication is sold or the writing staff changes, issues such as plagiarism, theft, or other forms of fraud involving AI-generated reviews may arise. Metacritic’s policy is not to post AI-generated critical reviews on Metacritic. If we become aware that they have been posted, we immediately remove them and indefinitely sever our association with that publication until a thorough investigation is conducted.”
This follows an incident documented by Kotaku where a video gamer’s review of Resident Evil Requiem was included in a Metacritic roundup. Videogamer was recently sold to Clickout, and over the past week the company has purged its site of human writers and pivoted entirely to AI-generated content. Its content appears to include game reviews by completely fabricated people with no online history. Metacritic has since removed Requiem’s review along with Videogamer’s other 2026 reviews.
In this regard, Shacknews is one of the news organizations taking a stand against generative AI. As described in a recent letter from the editor, this website does not and will not use generated AI in the editorial, video, image, or audio creation of its content.
Shacknews staff does not use generative artificial intelligence (AI) in our content. Shacknews strictly prohibits the use of its content for AI training or for generating text, including text in the style or format used in this publication. Shacknews reserves all rights to this work.
