We have seen posts concerned that Clip Studio Paint intends to implement generative AI. We would like to make it clear that this is not the case. In 2022, we received significant feedback from our community regarding generative AI, and decided against implementing it in Clip Studio Paint. We believe that problems concerning ethics, privacy, and intellectual property persist, and our stance on implementing generative AI remains unchanged. Clip Studio Paint includes several AI-powered tools for artists created from our own clean data set, built from illustration data provided to us from creators who gave their explicit consent for use in machine learning. This is the base from which our Colorize feature was constructed. Celsys plans to continue research into AI-powered solutions to assist artists in their work flow and make the creative process more fun, such as improved fill tools to pick up unfilled areas, line extraction, and 3D model posing, not AI image generation. Any future AI research will also be based only on clean data sets. We respect the ethics and intellectual property rights of creators and will continue to research AI tools with your interests first.