{"id":307351,"date":"2025-12-09T18:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/307351\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T18:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:01:07","slug":"arc-raiders-game-in-ai-debate-in-running-for-top-bafta-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/307351\/","title":{"rendered":"Arc Raiders: Game in AI debate in running for top Bafta award"},"content":{"rendered":"

The use of AI-based tools in game development is not new, but it has become a bigger topic since generative AI (GenAI) – the technology behind products such as ChatGPT – became more prominent.<\/p>\n

As in other industries, it has prompted fears of job losses, and accusations of stealing artists’ work without permission to train models.<\/p>\n

In the video game industry, which has seen record numbers of layoffs in recent years, those worries are heightened. <\/p>\n

Players and reviewers complained that Arc Raiders’ generated voice lines were lower quality than those delivered by human actors, and also expressed worries over performers losing out on work.<\/p>\n

A year-long strike over AI protections for video game actors ended in July this year<\/a>, with fears over replicating performances without consent being the main sticking point. <\/p>\n

Embark Studios has insisted it has not used GenAI in Arc Raiders, and that it does not wish to eliminate humans from its development process.<\/p>\n

Its co-founder, Stefan Strandberg, told website GamesRadar+, external<\/a> AI techniques have allowed the studio to work more efficiently while keeping its core team size small.<\/p>\n

Other games in the longlist have also been criticised by fans for using AI in development.<\/p>\n

The Alters, which appears in the performance and narrative categories, was found to have used AI translation, while early versions of Clair Obscur contained generated textures.<\/p>\n

In both cases, developers said the resulting text and images were placeholders never intended to appear in the final releases. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The use of AI-based tools in game development is not new, but it has become a bigger topic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-307351","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}