圍繞《柏德之門3》開發商拉瑞安工作室，近日爆發了一場與在工作流程中使用生成式人工智慧有關的爭議。拉瑞安負責人斯溫·文克證實，團隊確實會藉助神經網路工具，這一表態隨即在社交媒體上引發了強烈不滿。
針對「試圖通過AI節省人力成本」的指責，溫克回應稱，工作室並未用算法取代人類。他表示，目前公司共有72名美術人員，其中23人專職負責概念設定，公司也仍在持續招聘新人。他強調，AI僅用於前期的創意探索和構圖草稿階段，作用類似於搜尋引擎或設定集參考，最終的概念設計始終由真人藝術家完成。
然而，這番解釋並未說服所有人。曾在拉瑞安任職、網名為Hanner的前員工也加入了討論。她此前在質量測試和製作崗位工作，指責文克歪曲了團隊內部的真實態度。她聲稱，管理層在開發者並不情願的情況下強行推行生成式AI，而「公司內部基本達成共識」的說法並不屬實。在她看來，引入這類技術正在破壞拉瑞安作為優秀工作室的聲譽，本質上只是壓縮成本的手段，對提升製作效率並沒有實際幫助。
LOL As someone who's worked there 4 years, I'm not surprised ''Larian Studios Leaning Into Generative AI Despite Internal Pushback: ‘Everyone At The Company Is More Or Less OK With The Way We’re Using It’'' He's lying about people being okay with it
Feel free to call me names and assume what I do and don't know about a company's inner workings after working there for 4 years, I'm not wasting my time arguing with you. There's already been posts from artists who worked there and loved it before AI got forced on them
Stop with this bullshit argument that AI is inevitable. It's not. We've heard the same shit about never ending wars and everyone getting Covid. All of these things are preventable, not inevitable. People complying in advance is fucking us over. Stop schilling for billionaires!
與此同時，網友們還翻出了拉瑞安發行總監麥可·道斯的舊日言論，使事件進一步發酵。過去，他曾多次以相當激烈的措辭批評AI創作，稱其為「沒有靈魂、毫無意義的噪音」，甚至是「對人類的拙劣諷刺」。評論者指出，他此前關於「AI泡沫」的立場，與如今公司被證實正在使用這些工具進行創意生成的現實之間，存在明顯矛盾。
[the worst person you’ve ever met] here’s how AI could improve this
AI artists are insufferable. They think they're punk post-modernists but every intellectual point they make on Twitter was made by a man with a toilet in the 1910s. Yet to see a new idea that wasn't just LinkedIn copypasta.
Every app notification I get on my phone is "we have an exciting new AI feature that fucking doesnt work at all" and i wholly believe the bubble - in a financial sense - is indeed about to burst. Reminds me of the miserable 4 years every video game pitch was 'thing [but in VR]'
