Arc Raiders Developers Defend Generative AI Voice Lines as Actor Relief

Embark Studios, the developer behind the extraction shooter Arc Raiders, has spoken publicly about its use of generative AI for voice work in the game. The studio's argument is that the technology was a benefit to the performers, at least at the early stage of production where it was used for line reads.

According to the developers, the game's dialogue volume was simply too large to ask actors to handle by hand at that stage. Their point is that without AI-generated reads, the performers would have been left to work through a huge amount of material, and in their words they "would just go crazy if they had to read all of that."

The comments arrive in an industry that remains sharply divided over AI in voice performance. Performers and their representatives have pushed hard for consent, disclosure and fair pay whenever synthetic voices are involved, and many critics see any AI use in voice work as a step toward replacing human jobs. Embark's framing positions its approach as a workload tool rather than a substitute for actors, but that distinction will be judged by how the final performances were credited and compensated, and the remarks do not settle those questions.