Recently, Larian Studios mentioned that they use artificial intelligence for work. For example,
This has led to a "cancel campaign" — some gamers, as well as industry representatives, do not like it when developers "replace living people" by using AI instead of their labor. They believe that AI "steals jobs."
Publishing Director at Larian Studios, Michael Douse, explained Larian's position:
"Developing concepts with AI" means, for example, that an artist may have an idea, or someone else may want to express a basic idea but doesn't know how to do it, and instead of spending hours googling or trying to describe it in words, they simply generate this idea so that the artist better understands what the person wants to say. It's a way of communicating. Then the artist will do their job — create art, instead of, say, making a collage to convey this idea.
Fallout: New Vegas game director Josh Sawyer responded to his post — silently published sketches of concept ideas for his game Pentiment, which he made without AI, and then the final scenes.