{
  "id": 17962151,
  "title": "Arc Raiders devs Embark insist that using genAI for voice lines was necessary, as \"actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that\"",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/arc-raiders-devs-embark-insist-that-using-genai-for-voice-lines-was",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-03T12:32:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
    "slug": "rock-paper-shotgun",
    "url": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/arc-raiders-devs-embark-insist-that-using-genai-for-voice-lines-was-necessary-as-actors-would-just-go-crazy-if-they-had-to-read-all-of-that"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Embark's CCO, Stefan Strandberg, maintains that voice actors have not been replaced in the game Arc Raiders. He explains that the AI-generated voice lines were created using real voice performances, which led to significant criticism. In a new video, Strandberg discusses how they replaced the AI-generated lines with actual recordings, presumably because the game's success allowed them to afford more professional voice talent. This decision follows a similar controversy with their previous game, The Finals, where they also faced criticism for using AI-generated voice lines.",
  "summary": "Despite taking the voice performances of actors and feeding them into machines to spurt out AI-generated mimicry, Embark CCO Stefan Strandberg insists that \"we are not in the industry of replacing actors.\" In a new video posted to the Arc Raiders channel focused on audio design, Strandberg refers back to the infamous use of genAI in Arc Raiders to generate voice lines based on real voice actors'…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "PC Gamer",
        "title": "Arc Raiders devs have used a music sample 'from a piano in Chernobyl' that someone had discovered in the Forbidden Zone",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/02/arc-raiders-devs-have-used-a-music-sample-from-a-piano-in-chernobyl",
        "published": "2026-11-02T13:35:31.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}