It’s when you reach the sky that you are the most vulnerable.

After the quite unexpected, giant popular success of Baldur’s Gate 3, and the recent announce during the Game Awards with an elaborate, triumphant CG trailer for a new Divinity game, teaching everyone how money alone can exempt you from Pervasive American Bigotry, that would immediately and permanently ban you from marketplaces like Steam (whereas smaller studios will continue to be sacrificial victims, see “Horses” recent case, but also and especially the COUNTLESS other cases that won’t reach the press, or the continued, hidden, bigoted wars that happen at the higher levels of Paypal and other money processors, yadda, yadda).

The whole castle of hype comes crashing down to this:

“We are not responsible because we are so naive! Please forgive us!”

Of the whole backlash because of the announced use of AI for development. The debate obviously pivots on the role of the artists and artistry, but this is PRECISELY what happens when you don’t have a culture on what’s the epistemology of AI, and widespread incompetence about how it works at a bare technical level. Divided between the faction that sees AI as a mythological savior of humanity, and those who fear it like a supernatural demon.

This RAW human stupidity will be the singular cause of the greatest radical problems we’re going to face for the next few years. It’s will be the concrete cause of very tangible, concrete worldwide PAIN AND SUFFERING.

When you defend the role of the “artist” you defend a blind spot: the ineffable human creativity that you want to preserve. The mysterious something that you don’t want revealed. The special ingredient that makes a human being different from the rest of the WORLD. That ingredient for exception, for the exceptionalism of the human.

AI is seen as a threat to all this, as a form of machine replacement. Of the inhuman body that violates the flesh, like an unwanted, assailing prosthesis.

And this is all because we’ve made a myth of that blindness and a myth of that exceptionalism, so that human beings would become the center of the world. Until the world, and its truth, come back to assert themselves.

ALL that the AI world has done and is doing, is one just game of DECEPTION. This deception, based on epistemological failures due to not comprehending the place of human beings in the world, is just a simple final tool of good old capitalism. The problem of AI is its deception. And its deception is about MONEY. The great distraction is about making people debate over the nature of artistry, feeding on a lie, while inflating its own GIANT SCAM. AI is not about its uses, present or potential, but about its hidden costs.

Since AI is not “a thing” (but a blunt tool), it’s not anything emergent, it’s not new, it’s not generational, then its only danger is solely HUMAN DRIVEN. Same as a knife is not a threat, but the arm wielding it. The human stupidity. The problem of AI is not AI, but people’s BELIEF and participation to a scam, like it’s always been.

AI is what will cause, in the next months and then years, the WHOLE economy to collapse. People got used thinking in isolated boxes. People who observe the “game industry” think about it as if it’s a whole world disconnected from everything else. But it’s all one world, everything is connected. The crazy skyrocketing costs (and deliberately driven scarcity) we’ve seen a few years ago about GPUs and just now spread to RAM and SSD, are ALL PART OF THE SAME SCHEME, just the tip of the iceberg that will lead to a deep and worldwide inflationary wave. It won’t stop within the narrow box of “hardware.” The costs sunk on AI are about money redirected away from the people. The same money that keeps you well fed. Costs that you are just starting to see, even if the hand is still well hidden.

You won’t lose your job because AI replaced you. But because “your” money was redirected somewhere else. Somewhere useless. A giant, devouring cancer.

All because of the “hidden” costs of AI.

Every time one of Larian’s concept artists will use an AI tool to speed some process, for cheap, is because WE ARE ALL PAYING that cost. At a much greater price. AI is simply a scam, of redirecting costs where you don’t see them, giving you the illusion it all comes for free. That it’s all magically new. It’s one giant magical trick of showing the card without showing the hand. And we are ALL just too stupid to not fall for it.

Boycotts in this scenario are completely useless because this great AI scam comes in the form of self sabotage. You won’t crumble because you lose the support of your audience, but merely because the hidden consequences will become manifest. Until the reality of those costs will come to overwhelm and bury you under the ground.

Larian is just one example of a war waged against reality.
You WILL GET BURIED by reality itself.
You WILL SMASH against it.

The irony of Larian is that the great pyre they’ve shown in that trailer is simply going to depict themselves.

Burn. Rejoice. It’s going to be one giant party celebrating your own death.

This isn’t about Larian specifically. It’s just the mythical figure that represents a whole. A symbol of what’s to come.

The great pyre is a collective pyre of an industry that is celebrating its own complete demise.

They are ALL going to die. In the full glory of their own delivered stupidity.

You’ve all learned technology and progress ever evolving, like an immutable fact. Now you’ll see what happens when it all collapses. Not because of AI, that became a convenient vehicle for this process, but because of this final showdown of human stupidity.

The last symbol affixed to our collective grave, for no one to witness.

Bright, we burn.

P.S.
Because I split hair about epistemology:
“I answered that we use it to explore things. I didn’t say we use it to develop concept art.”

That’s a plain contradiction at a bare, objective technical level. Concept art is merely about “exploring things.”

“just follow the herd, idiot!”

These fucking people should not just lose their job, but not get another one, ever. Because they clearly don’t have a functioning, autonomous brain.

(this is from the complete interview script, that was released as a form of damage control from “press titles”, so that delving into what was being said would somewhat clear the water. Yeah, we can clearly see that you are, indeed, a piece of shit. The more it clears the worse it gets. If you want to improve PR just shut the fuck up.)