The inability for people to separate generative AI from automated or procedural AI is very frustrating, and I'm sure some do it on purpose.

Like man, my career only exists in the way that it does now because a production designer was googling "realistic pokemon" and found me. If he could have just had a machine spit that out, I never would have gotten a job. This is a major issue hitting artist discoverability.

I find so many artists I've never seen before when researching ref on every single painting I make. This is the way we make connections. Using genAI to make reference is creating unseen missed opportunities at unprecedented speed and removing one more human element of art making.

Total rejection of slop is not "wasting calories", as this KPI-brained idiot wants to convince you, it's positive affirmation of our shared humanity. It's having values that go beyond mere optimization of uninteresting goals. A better world is possible if we build it on top of Sam Altman's corpse.

Tbh I was kinda on the fence already cause while I love BG3, it is wayyyyy too long for my attention span, so if Divinity is even longer I will probably never play it lol

Right. "We use it but we're not pushing it." But you are... using it.

I mean I get it, Larian was a favorite and people are tired of being upset. But we can't just handwave it away.

Devs bust their asses to make one of my all time favorite things. I just want them to be taken care of and treated well. And time and time again it is made apparent that there are very few studios that actually do this.

this is boss speak for every single person working under me hates this decision and has personally warned me not to do it multiple times