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Austin Wood

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 studio insists AI used in "early stages of production" only, dodges questions about translator allegedly replaced by AI but says "we do not see AI as a substitute for human work"

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 peasants drinking at a table.

If you thought a Reddit AMA from Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developer Warhorse Studios would result in the devs getting buried in smarmy questions about replacing humans with AI, given that a KCD2 translator just said he was fired by the studio and replaced by AI, you'd be correct. The devs also saw this coming, but "decided to go in head first" anyway, says creative director Prokop Jirsa.

A now-verified post from translator Max Hejtmanek accused Warhorse of terminating his position to "'save finances'" despite the enormous success of the studio's RPGs. He also said his position had been made "'obsolete'" in favor of using AI for "all translations going forward."

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