Bruce Straley

Bloomberg reports that Larian has been, quote, pushing hard on generative AI, end quote, using it for things like PowerPoint presentations, placeholder text, and even concept art.

The RPG powerhouse has reportedly moved ahead with the tools, even against the wishes of some staff at the company, though Sven believes most of the team is on board with how it's currently being implemented.

Quote, I think at this point, everyone in the company is more or less okay with the way we're using it, he said.

The Larian director also promised that no generative AI would make it into any finished games, like the studio's upcoming turn-based RPG Divinity.

Quote, everything is human actors.

We're writing everything ourselves, he told Bloomberg.

Okay.

All right, Mr. Doodling on the sands while you surf.

I'm sure you're using AI left and right in your game, right?

uh, they were talking and having, this was going around and somebody quote tweeted, it was like, this is going to be a great fallback plan when inevitably something they did use for generative AI makes it to the final game.

And they're all, it was a mistake.

We need to do it.

And maybe it is an actual mistake.

Yeah.

But again, it's like anytime you insert something in the code or whatever, or an inside joke that then makes it, or, you know, we do something stupid in the doc and then that somehow get like,

This is how you, this is a, this is a, you can see the rake.

We're, we're inside the house, but I can see the rake in the front yard and I know you're going to step on it.

Like, don't do it.

Like, don't bother doing it.

And like PowerPoints, let's not make a PowerPoint.