GOTY-winning Baldur’s Gate 3 and Divinity developer Larian under fire, as the game director’s AI comments spark outrage

Larian Studios, the developer behind award-winning Divinity: Original Sin 1 and 2, 2023’s Game of the Year Baldur’s Gate 3, and the newly announced Divinity, is under considerable heat after the founder, CEO, and the studio head, Swen Vincke, made comments about the usage of generative AI in development.

These comments were printed in a Bloomberg report by Jason Schreier about Larian’s next game, Divinity. There, Vincke said the studio has been “pushing hard” on generative AI, even though no major efficiency gains were found.