Divnity, meet Divine Retribution.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Hannukah, Happy Holidays to any and all who celebrate anything during the jolly and festive month of December. This will be my last blog post of 2025, and of course, it’s about Generative AI. So, without further ado… Larian, what the fuck were you thinking? After hyping up their next big game with a mysterious statue in California and finally revealing it at Geoff Keighley’s video game Superbowl, Swen Vincke, head of Larian Studios, decided the smartest move was to open his mouth and admit that the game’s concept art was influenced, to some vague degree, by Generative AI (and that they're letting AI throw together PowerPoints, which is even more frivolous and indefensible in my opinion as a Professional Complainer). His excuse? That their actual artists, who are clearly talented, sometimes “need help visualizing their ideas,” and that AI was used like an art book. (Siri, did Zdzisław Beksiński need to use Generative AI, o...