Neverness to Everness set the template for how not to handle an AI art controversy. The studio's announcement that it would rework its AI-generated images carried an implicit promise of replacement with human-made work — what players actually received, within 24 hours, was a different set of AI-generated images . The incident is not simply a failure of execution; it reveals that the studio had no coherent definition of what 'reworking' meant, which is itself a symptom of the broader vacuum. Without an industry-agreed standard for what remediation requires —…