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Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'

Doctorbllk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

There’s nothing to complain about here. Games require tons of placeholders, in art, dialogue, and code. They will iterate dozens of times before the final product, and given Larian’s own production standards, there’s no chance anything but the most inconsequential or forgotten items made by an LLM will stay in.

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Noja@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Among the devs responding is a former Larian staffer, environment artist Selena Tobin. “consider my feedback: i loved working at @larianstudios.com until AI,” Tobin writes. “reconsider and change your direction, like, yesterday. show your employees some respect. they are world-class & do not need AI assistance to come up with amazing ideas.”

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- rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  A lot of the industry artists are at the very least using AI to screw around with concept art for references. The kind of stuff where they used to use google to search. One of my friends fed a service a fairly raw hand-sketched drawing, told it how to finish it off, then asked it to put it in different poses at different angles, then used that to hand-make the character into 3D.
  
  There are, of course, many artists who wouldn’t touch any of it with a 10-foot pole.
  
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- Doctorbllk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  The article doesn’t say Larian is using it for concept art.
  
  Those were hypothetical statements from people outside the studio.
  
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  - Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Literally the first sentence
    
    A few hours ago, reports surfaced that Larian are making use of generative AI during development of their new RPG Divinity - specifically, to come up with ideas, produce placeholder text, develop concept art, and create materials for PowerPoint presentations.
    
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    SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Not the powerpoint presentations! Isn’t anything sacred anymore?
    
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    Doctorbllk@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You’re right, I missed that
    
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    Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The actual quote from Swen is that they use it in the “ideation” phase of concept art. Basically: throwing shit on the wall and seeing what sticks. After that, the process is taken over by any of their almost 30 concept artists on payroll.
    
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  - Noja@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Idk but that seems pretty obvious to me from reading the quote by Larian CEO Swen Vincke that they used to, or are still using it to generate or “enhance” concept art and that’s it’s a highly discussed topic within the company?
    
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    Alaknar@sopuli.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    What he actually said was that they use it in the “ideation” phase of concept art. Basically: throwing shit on the wall and seeing what sticks. After that, the process is taken over by any of their almost 30 concept artists on payroll.
    
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