Embark CEO: 'A real professional actor is better than AI'

Arc Raiders has proven to be a big hit and showed that the extraction shooter had legs for a more casual crowd, but like The Finals before it, it's drawn negative attention for its use of AI voices. In a new interview, Embark CEO and Nexon executive chairman Patrick Söderlund said the studio has begun to phase out "a lot" of the AI-generated voice work in Arc Raiders.

"We re-recorded some of the lines post-launch and made them with real voices … There is a quality difference," Söderlund said. "A real professional actor is better than AI; that's just how it is." Though Arc Raiders now has fewer AI voice lines than it did at release, the studio isn't phasing out its use of AI.

Söderlund reaffirmed a sentiment he's shared before: that AI is enough of a timesaver to keep around. AI isn't only concerning for creative reasons—its environmental and economic impacts contribute to a broad suite of ethical worries.

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