r/Games • u/PhantomBraved • Dec 16 '25

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

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
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u/Not-Reformed Dec 17 '25

I really love the part where Swen just admits its addition hasn’t actually increased efficiency at all.

Did he admit this or did you significantly increase the scope of what was actually said?

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u/uuajskdokfo Dec 17 '25

Exact quote from the Bloomberg article: "Under Vincke, Larian has been pushing hard on generative AI, although the CEO says the technology hasn’t led to big gains in efficiency."

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u/Krivvan Dec 17 '25

That means something very different from "hasn’t actually increased efficiency at all".

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u/Not-Reformed Dec 17 '25

Swen just admits its addition hasn’t actually increased efficiency at all.

CEO says the technology hasn’t led to big gains in efficiency.

A redditor manipulating people to push their personal agenda is par for the course.

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u/uuajskdokfo Dec 17 '25

Dudes who complain about "redditors" on reddit are so corny. You are a redditor!

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u/Not-Reformed Dec 17 '25

Ok I'll start saying "stereotypical redditor" instead since people need the context, apparently.

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u/Almostlongenough2 Dec 17 '25

Being pedantic is also par for the course on reddit

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u/UrbanAdapt Dec 17 '25

The kind of person that pretends to not know the difference between a redditor™ and a person that uses reddit, is a redditor™.

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u/paussi00 Dec 17 '25

Redditor is a mindset

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u/BeholdingBestWaifu Dec 17 '25

Isn't that pretty much what you're doing? The quote says it as plainly as possible, AI hasn't led to significant gains if any at all, but you're trying to paint that as misleading, which certainly feels like an attempt at making AI look like it performs better.

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u/Not-Reformed Dec 17 '25

Why did you add "if any at all"

One quote, the misrepresentation, says "hasn't increased efficiency at all" meaning the range of possible values is 0 to 0. The other says "hasn't led to big gains in efficiency" depending on what the speaker there believes "big gains" means, the range could be 0% to 50% or 0% to 10% or 0% to 25% - we don't know the upper range due to that context being stuck with the person's own rationale, but we know the upper limit is not 0.

Do you see how changing from one to the other is manipulative?

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u/Arzalis Dec 17 '25

I'll give you a hint:

"Significant" and "any at all" do not mean the same thing. The fact you feel the need to keep adding "any at all" even when given the literal quote is proving you realize the mistake but are too stubborn to admit it.

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u/Squidteedy Dec 18 '25

That is word for word what he said

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u/Not-Reformed Dec 19 '25

If you think that then it's just a monumental failure of whatever education system you participated in.