Controversy flared earlier this week when Larian Studios — developer of 2023's Game of the Year-winning RPG Baldur's Gate 3 — was revealed to be using generative AI for ideation while working on its new upcoming turn-based RPG Divinity.
The fiasco began when a Bloomberg interview with Larian CEO Swen Vincke suggested "Larian has been pushing hard on generative AI," though both Vincke himself and publishing director Michael Douse clarified the studio isn't "pushing hard" for AI and is offering it as an optional tool for devs that want to generate a reference image for Larian's concept artists to use. It was also stressed that there will be no AI content whatsoever in Divinity itself.
