Replacing actors with AI is "dumb as hell," says Jennifer English

Jennifer English, who appears in Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, warned that replacing actors with generative AI would destroy the "humanness" that makes these RPGs beloved. "I don't want perfect in my art. I do not want it. And I find it all a bit embarrassing and stupid, frankly.

Don't replace humans with AI. That is dumb as hell," she said in a Radio Times interview alongside fellow Baldur's Gate 3 star Samantha Béart and Doug Cockle. Expedition 33 did use generative AI during development to create some background textures; those textures were patched out after launch, and the RPG lost one of its GOTY awards.

Director Guillaume Brioche has said that all Sandfall's future content "will be made by humans." Actors represented by SAG-AFTRA have taken action to build protections against AI, first as part of a film and television strike in 2023, then with a strike against game publishers in 2024 and 2025.

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