{"id":273886,"date":"2025-11-20T16:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273886\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T16:39:17","slug":"baldurs-gate-3-lead-slams-insufferable-ai-artists-whose-ideas-are-mere-linkedin-copypasta-every-intellectual-point-they-make-on-twitter-was-made-by-a-man-with-a-toilet-in-the-1910s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273886\/","title":{"rendered":"Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 lead slams “insufferable” AI artists whose ideas are mere “LinkedIn Copypasta”: “Every intellectual point they make on Twitter was made by a man with a toilet in the 1910s”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Generative AI is a hot button issue in game development, as studios big and small employ some version of the tech in their processes. Baldur’s Gate 3<\/a> company Larian Studios isn’t among them, as publishing director Michael Douse believes the whole lot of it to be utterly useless.<\/p>\n

On X\/Twitter, he posted a small rant about people thinking they’re creative by throwing prompts at these algorithmic bots. “AI artists are insufferable,” he starts. “They think they’re punk post-modernists but every intellectual point they make on Twitter was made by a man with a toilet in the 1910s. Yet to see a new idea that wasn’t just LinkedIn copypasta.”<\/p>\n

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He goes on to add that anyone who “evangelised a spanner” with similar energy would be approached with extreme skepticism and get “put in a home.” Nobody can accuse him of being coy about his views, that’s for sure.<\/p>\n

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His particularly staunch viewpoint is relatively rare compared to more tempered perspectives. Shams Jorjani, the CEO of Arrowhead Studios, the company behind Helldivers 2<\/a>, believes there’s a “middle ground”<\/a> in using aspects of the technology, while Brendan Greene, the creator of PUBG<\/a>, is glad the industry has a broad distaste for the tolls, but claims to actively use it<\/a> “the right way” for some parts of the pipeline in his current project.<\/p>\n

Metal Gear Solid<\/a> and Death Stranding<\/a> mastermind Hideo Kojima<\/a> views AI as a “friend” to which he’d offload the “tedious tasks.” There have been reports<\/a> of EA making chatbots and other tech mandatory company-wide, not only for creative processes but in management as well. Meanwhile, Arc Raiders<\/a> and Black Ops 7<\/a> have suffered backlash for allegedly utilizing AI in different capacities.<\/p>\n

Though it can be appealing to have something automate smaller or more time-consuming jobs in making a game, it’s always important to remember the assets often come from systems trained on artwork that was used without the consent of their creators. The value of a human’s work lies at the core of any debate around the subject, and it seems as though Larian is one team that isn’t going to be persuaded any which way.<\/p>\n

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