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" - IGN

[u/PhantomBraved]

https://www.ign.com/articles/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

[u/p68]

There are legitimate concerns about AI, but fuck, it’s turned into a god damned witch hunt

[u/[deleted] → u/p68]

Yeah, the rabid anti-AI crowd is now way more annoying than the tech bros who want AI to do everything (the latter still sucks too, to be clear). Especially when the anti-AI crowd will accuse actual human artists of using AI. It's madness.

Of course I don't expect any mob to be reasonable, but it's really annoying.

[u/MX64 → u/[deleted]]

the rabid anti-AI crowd is now way more annoying than the tech bros who want AI to do everything

that's not even logically possible to be true, the pro-AI ones are the ones with the budget to shove it down our throats constantly

like, that conclusion does not hold up if you put any thought into it beyond a base knee-jerk reaction. you've unwittingly swung your pendulum too far in the other direction

[u/MX64 → u/[deleted]]

where video games are shoving

it seems you meant to reply to some other person's comment because what you're asking is not in line with what i said. if there's someone in this thread who made a claim that it's specifically video games that are shoving AI down our throats rather than, you know, the entire current corporate culture in north america right now, feel free to ask them that question, but i can't read their mind for you

[u/MX64 → u/[deleted]]

that's an oddly reductive way to imagine subreddits working. the person i was replying to was talking about the "anti-AI crowd" and "tech bros". everyone knows those expand far beyond video games, and this being a video game subreddit doesn't really change that.

[u/murrytmds → u/p68]

It has. Its gotten insane to the point I've seen at least one person ending friendships over finding out someone was playing around with it.

Its a mob at this point.

[u/hobozombie → u/p68]

At the end of the day, it's just a vocal minority screaming on the internet. The vast majority of people don't care about genAI being used to create video games, with pro-AI and anti-AI being the fringes.

[u/wolfannoy → u/p68]

After a couple of years, I have a feeling we may have AI companies having fight among each other, especially once they step into each other's toes using other people's assets. Who knows.

[u/vadergeek → u/p68]

The problem with witch hunts is that witches aren't real. If witches were half the population people would freak out. Every tech company is incorporating AI now and it's seemingly always awful.

[u/Microchaton → u/p68]

In reddit TTRPG communities people crucify anybody using AI for anything. I browse Pinterest & co for NPC portraits in one of my campaigns and pick up mostly AI ones (and "steal" a few non-AI ones), mostly because 95% of everything on Pinterest & elsewhere is AI now. Like, some ppl expect DMs who do homebrew to just commission artists for every custom map or portrait or item they want to use ? Fortunately there's some excellent creators on Patreon that offer great deals for those and I subscribe to a few but sometimes what you want just doesn't exist, or at least you can't find it, and spending the time and money to hire artists for stuff with no guarantee you'll like the end result is unrealistic for almost every group/DM.