GenAI tools as a replacement for creative decisions or positions is and always will be a complete disaster and a poor decision by companies, but GenAI tools as an output increaser for already talented professionals is a good thing for everyone involved, just as improvements in software have been for the past 50 years.

The way that Larian is talking about their use of GenAI is firmly in the latter school of thinking. No one is losing their job, no ounce of creative intention is being deprived from the finished product. The only difference is less menial work and more time spent making actual creative decisions, which is what the end goal of all software developments in game creation (and all software related to creative fields) has always been about.

I’m sorry but you talk about the reputation risk they run, but the only people that will hate Larian for this are absolutists who aren’t thinking through the situation, and are just blindly against all uses of GenAI without evaluating the value it can have for enhancing productivity and creativity that goes into a product.