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Joshua Wolens

Dragon Age setting creator says AI push is a delusion of the executive class that's a 'virulent plague' on games

Morrigan, the Witch of the Wilds, in Dragon Age: Origins.

With the confidence of a man whose name is on some of the best videogame stories out there, BioWare veteran and Dragon Age setting creator David Gaider recently told GamesRadar that generative AI is a "virulent plague" on the games industry.

Gaider, who most recently worked on "unholy roguelite deckbuilder" Malys, said that the way AI is being pushed has the effect of producing inferior work, removing entry-level opportunities for junior writers, and writes in a way that's incredibly hard to iterate on, and that's before you get into the morality of using it at all.

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