Baldur's Gate 3 actor Neil Newbon, who plays Astarion in the hit 2023 RPG, is once again making it very clear he doesn't want generative AI anywhere near his video games. Of course, Newbon has never been shy to share his feelings on AI, having previously said it "sucks," "doesn't work very well," and "sounds crap" alongside other more expletive-laden repudiations. Baldur's Gate 3 actor Neil Newbon says AI voices "sound crap" and studios should pay actors to re-record those lines Baldur’s Gate 3 lead slams "insufferable" AI artists whose ideas are mere "LinkedIn Copypasta": "Every intellectual point they make on Twitter was made by a man with a toilet in the 1910s" Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 star Jennifer English says "mistakes are beautiful," so "use your beautiful, creative, human brains" and not AI "It just goes to show to you, folks, fuck AI," Newbon said. "This game could never be made by AI. It's too interesting, subtle, crazy, off the wall, pathos-filled. It's too human. So yeah, there's no fucking way AI could make this." While the industry has more or less been forced to accept some degree of AI in things like task automation, generating art, writing, or acting is the big sticking point. That's why, despite initially admitting to and defending the use of AI in concept art development for Divinity, Larian has since pulled a 180 and committed to there being no such use of the tech. Somehow only slightly off topic: Larian says Divinity won't have AI-generated penises: "I can guarantee that all the genitals in the game be manually crafted with love"