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Brendan Greene Declares PlayerUnknown Productions Independent of Krafton’s AI Push as Prologue Nears Early Access

He stresses an artist-led approach with no LLMs in use at the studio.

Overview

  • Greene says Krafton is only a minority stakeholder and that the companies have operated separately since 2021.
  • He confirms the studio is researching machine learning and local GPU compute to help artists scale world generation.
  • Prologue: Go Wayback! launches on November 20 in Steam Early Access as a showcase for terrain-level world building.
  • Krafton recently rolled out an 'AI first' mandate and offered voluntary redundancies, drawing scrutiny across the industry.
  • Greene says he is encouraged by player pushback against generative AI and frames his tools as enabling, not replacing, artists.