{"id":1621879,"date":"2026-07-01T16:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/LGMjpjgWbtFnDQe6GyS7dV"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:14:21","slug":"dragon-age-setting-creator-says-ai-push-is-a-delusion-of-the-executive-class-thats-a-virulent-plague-on-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/dragon-age-setting-creator-says-ai-push-is-a-delusion-of-the-executive-class-thats-a-virulent-plague-on-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Age setting creator says AI push is a delusion of the executive class that’s a ‘virulent plague’ on games"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the confidence of a man whose name is on some of the best videogame stories out there, BioWare veteran and Dragon Age setting creator David Gaider recently told GamesRadar<\/a> that generative AI is a “virulent plague” on the games industry.<\/p>\n

Gaider, who most recently worked on “unholy roguelite deckbuilder<\/a>” Malys, said that the way AI is being pushed has the effect of producing inferior work, removing entry-level opportunities for junior writers, and writes in a way that’s incredibly hard to iterate on, and that’s before you get into the morality of using it at all.<\/p>\n

“Honestly, what does it help with? Does it make the work more efficient? Does it improve the work?” Gaider asked. “It wouldn’t be so bad if generative AI was seen more as an assistant, doing the drudgery while leaving more important tasks for the worker, but we seem to be seeing more and more of the reverse: the AI is set to do the important work and the worker is around to ‘clean up’.”<\/p>\n

The result is work that human writers have to bang into shape. “In all my time as a narrative designer I’ve never once encountered a situation where editing an inferior product took less time than simply throwing it out and redoing it would have or resulted in anything better than mediocre,” said Gaider, and even in the situation were reversed\u2014AI doing the menial work while humans carried on the highfalutin stuff\u2014”we have to be very careful about not eliminating every task which is useful for training juniors. How are we going to train up the next generation of devs if we eliminate every entry-level task?”<\/p>\n

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