They are not pre-rendered voice lines? I had assumed they were using LLMs for asset creation, not live. (It seems way too risky for a AAA studio to release a multiplayer game played by kids where you use a genAI prompt live, but they do keep surprising me by how little they care about brand safety)
Executives are way too easily snowed by stories about how things could go well, and never listen to how things could go poorly until it's too late. "Quality of the brand" is treated as a commodity that can be exchanged for money, not an asset that needs to be preserved.
definitely not pre-rendered, given people convinced Darth Vader to say fuck on like day two.
It's like the one "legit" justification for using an AI rather than a voice actor.