Szhival Czherviakhov

@szhival.bsky.social

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Red Panderp//37//He-Him-Hole//Your local lewd wah//Assume NSFW//Hopeless sub//Pansexual//Aromantic

To the Simple Man by Julian Tuwim When again to walls with dripping glue, They start to paste their signs, When to dear people and dear soldiers too, The ink blast-blackens through, And every goon, and every foolish swine, Takes this everlasting lie as true: That one must go and by cannon rip asunder, Murder, poison, burn and plunder; When in the thousandth way they charm, “Homeland, harm”—and by this sleight of-hand delude with coat-of-arms, And incite by reason of “historical right”, The power, the glory, the frontiers, Of our fathers, forefathers and their banners, Of heroes and martyrs; When the bishop, priest and rabbi, All emerge to bless your rifle to the skies, Because they themselves have heard God say, For the homeland all must fight today; When the cadaverous screech of vulgarized front-page paper headlines rings, And herds of wild women canonize —with flowers—our brave little soldierlings: “But, my dear unlearn'ed friend, My brother from this or other worlds! Know that they beat their drums with dread, These kings with paunchy maiden-girls; Know that it’s a sham, a common ruse, When they command you: “Shoulder arms!”, For somewhere deep their oil’s begun to ooze, Yielding a harvest of dollars; That banks aren’t quite to their liking—that they’ve sniffed out cash in places easier to access, Or else set-sights, these fattest cats, On even fatter taxes. Thresh the streets with bullets until you free the soil, The blood is yours, the oil theirs! And from capital to capital call out, defending your blood, sweat and toil: ‘Fuck you—it’s us, you noble heirs!’”
"We've decided to refrain from using genAI tools during concept-art development. That way, there can be no discussion about the origin of the art," Vinke replied. "Having said that, we continuously try to improve the speed with which we can try things out. The more iterations we can do, the better, in general, the gameplay is. We think GenAI can help with this, and so we’re trying things out across departments. Our hope is that it can aid us to refine ideas faster, leading to a more focused development cycle, less waste, and ultimately, a higher-quality game." Vinke did note that the creative assets will not be generated from outside. If an AI model is used to create something, it will be trained on data or art that Larian itself owns. Fans weren't done there, though: A follow-up question asked whether the no-AI stance applied only to concept-art, or if it extended to other creative areas such as writing. They also pointed out previous mentions of using AI for placeholder text and wondered whether such use could undesirably influence final content. Larian's writing director, Adam Smith, responded: "The stance applies to writing as well. We don't have any text generation touching our dialogues, journal entries, or other writing in Divinity." Smith went further in explaining that using AI to generate placeholder text offered no real benefit after working with a model. "We had a limited group experimenting with tools to generate text, but the results hit a 3/10 at best, and those tools are for research purposes, not for use in Divinity. Even my worst first drafts--and there are a lot of them--are at least a 4/10 (although Swen might disagree), and the amount of iteration required to get even individual lines to the quality we want is enormous."