{"id":188286,"date":"2025-12-16T22:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/188286\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:32:09","slug":"larians-ceo-says-the-studio-isnt-trimming-down-teams-to-replace-them-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/188286\/","title":{"rendered":"Larian\u2019s CEO says the studio isn\u2019t \u2018trimming down teams to replace them with AI\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup ewrhy38 _1xwtict1\">We\u2019ve been continuously increasing our pool of concept artists , writers and story-tellers, are actively putting together writer rooms, casting and recording performances from actors and hiring translators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup ewrhy38 _1xwtict1\">Since concept art is being called out explicitly &#8211; we have 23 concept artists and have job openings for more. These artists are creating concept art day in day out for ideation and production use.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup ewrhy38 _1xwtict1\">Everything we do is incremental and aimed at having people spend more time creating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup ewrhy38 _1xwtict1\">Any ML tool used well is additive to a creative team or individual\u2019s workflow, not a replacement for their skill or craft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup ewrhy38 _1xwtict1\">We are researching and understanding the cutting edge of ML as a toolset for creatives to use and see how it can make their day-to-day lives easier, which will let us make better games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup ewrhy38 _1xwtict1\">We are neither releasing a game with any AI components, nor are we looking at trimming down teams to replace them with AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup ewrhy38 _1xwtict1\">While I understand it\u2019s a subject that invokes a lot of emotion, it\u2019s something we are constantly discussing internally through the lens of making everyone\u2019s working day better, not worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019ve been continuously increasing our pool of concept artists , writers and story-tellers, are actively putting together writer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[345,146,5968,85,46,43,125],"class_list":["post-188286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-entertainment","tag-gaming","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}