this is the workbench and tools of a character who is obsessed with the act of physical work

like deifies the process of shaping something with your hands, in a very mentally unwell way

very cool character, I love my little toolmaker

But I have my doubts, because its not like this was a leak or something that was said candidly, even on the small scale this was a purposeful admittance that in spite of outcry from artists, genAI exists in their pipeline.

they can't have been unaware that they'd face criticism on this.

it is just such a mess. I can't in good conscience support Larian right now, because even the best case scenario is more than I'd be able to stand for. it all feels like such a tangle of contradictory ideas that I'm just hoping that they take this criticism an remove AI from their workflow.

also I fully agree with this. I'm an artist too and Larian was a company that I was actually hoping to work at once I leave uni, so I'm really sad to see this from them. I wounldn't want to work in a company that uses genAI in the ways that they do at all, and that sucks

you've done more research than me on this, so if you've found actual quotes from Vincke in this that create the sentiment that the article showed, then that makes my confusion moot, I was just going from the article itself and felt that the quotes alone didn't fully support the article's position

oh I did more just mean that the article seemed to expand on quotes outside of quotation in ways that felt more emphatically pro-AI than anything that was explicitly in quotation

thank you for this! you've better phrased a lot of the stuff that was really making my head spin about all this

no matter what its still beyond disappointing to see a studio like larian that had so much respect from the games art community not pushing back against AI, but the article felt so off,,

yeah no I agree completely its really disappointing regardless, even the point where they've backpeddled too is still too much, but still,, It's also bad that that kind of journalism works and goes unnoticed

From the way I read the interview and the response to it, it almost looks like the article was putting words in their mouths? Like all of the direct quotes, I feel are a lot more in line with this walked back attitude, but the words of the article surrounding the quotes make them sound so hardline