Owlcat says everything in its new Expanse RPG 'will definitely 100 percent be human-made,' but also that generative AI will be used for 'vision coordination' and 'inspiration'

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CRPG magnate Owlcat recently reiterated that its upcoming action RPG, The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, is making use of generative AI in its development—though the studio is trying to assure players it’s not a big deal.As PR manager Katharina Popp told Eurogamer, “We don’t use it to create any assets that will be in the game … We use it a lot for prototyping, trying things out, placeholders. They will all be replaced at the end.” She continued that “it’s basically for being able to iterate faster. But we don’t use it to write, we don’t use AI voice actors, so everything that will be in the final version will definitely 100 percent be human made.”This is in line with what the studio shared in a post on X two years ago when user anafigreen shared a screenshot of a job listing for a concept artist at Owlcat which listed “concept generation using AI” as an example work task. The studio replied saying that “AI will be used exclusively for additional work with concepts and speeding up some internal processes,” and not for final versions of art. Examples it gave were “creative search, inspiration, or vision coordination before starting conceptualization itself.”Article continues below You may like ‘I f**king hate gen AI art,’ Hooded Horse chief says: ‘If we’re publishing the game, no f**king AI assets’ Larian swears off gen AI concept art tools and says ‘There is not going to be any GenAI art in Divinity,’ but it’s still ‘trying [AI] things out across departments’ Crimson Desert team apologizes after players find AI art in the game: ‘Our intention has always been for any such assets to be replaced’ It’s not clear how “inspiration” and “creative search” are different from or nec