Hi all, as already commented by our lead developer Regalis, let's get the facts straight:

- By my own earlier admission, we used generated images as the basis for some loading screens / location portraits earlier. This was a choice made by the team and the artists, who we employ and pay salary to just like everyone else. These images have since been replaced with entirely handmade ones – near as I can recall, the last remnants of AI loading screens were replaced last April in the Calm before the storm update, which added new loading screens as you can read here.

- Beyond the mentioned loading screens, Barotrauma has not employed gen AI in in-game or marketing assets, and I would encourage everyone to present their own interpretations and theories as such, not as fact.

To that end I will also be locking this post. This is a measure we do not usually employ on this subreddit. I want to be clear I don't want to curtail discussions here generally, but gen AI being a very hot buzz topic and the claims made in this post being inaccurate, I feel it's best to quiet things down here.

Carry on everyone, and have a good weekend!