It's-a me, CassBurger!

If Larian is using generative AI to develop concept art which is then given to artists to turn into game assets and environments, then they can’t say there is no AI generated content.

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This is super disappointing.

Concept artists are unbelievably valuable, and AI generated concept art absolutely pushes them out of work.

How many of your favourite games have had a ‘making of’ documentary with amazing concept art shown as backdrops.

And "Everyone at the company is more or less OK with the way we're using it" is such a shitty line. There have been so many job losses in the industry recently that the majority of people absolutely will keep their heads down if they thought speaking out would put them at risk losing their income.

I couldn’t find the auto-response about this, but I did find this post with some worthwhile commentary from two years ago (of course, it’s impossible to be all-encompassing in brief comments online, for example this is missing the history of dhimmitude and Mizrahim and the MENA expulsions, and doesn’t have the breadth to expand on pogroms and the centuries of prejudice and violence across Europe that eventually made the industrialized murder of the Holocaust possible, but these are helpful overviews):

Probably a long shot cause I never post anything here anymore but maybe I'll get lucky lol My partner and his family lost their beloved family dog earlier in the week and I want to get them a memorial gift for Christmas. The gift I want to get is currently on sale so I'm offering up a colored sketch to raise the funds for it.