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So, per the article, mr CEO didn't want to pay the devopers their well earned extra from hitting a sales goal, so the wooden doll asked chatGePeTo how to avoid that. Even Gepeto said that it was going to "be difficult", but Kim Becile insisted on a plan.

The first step was posting a message on Subanutica’s website to get fans on his side. According to court documents, Kim said the goal of the message was to “secure public support from fans and legal validation of our legitimacy.” He then suggested that ChatGPT write it for him. It achieved the opposite of his intended goal. Fans found the message bizarre and worried about the future of the game. Those fears were compounded when Kim fired the game’s original creators and entered into a legal battle with them.

I'd like to meet a CEO of a similar megacorp that isn't both a complete fucking idiot AND an absolute psychopath. Surely there has to be one?

This is a lot of what's happening. LLM companies have convinced the eagerly selfish that LLMs can empower them to do things they currently rely on others for, faster and better, and the early adopters are making very risky decisions that are blowing up in their faces. The current US admin is one of these groups of eagerly selfish, believing LLMs will empower them to be capable of things they simply aren't, like seizing power and ruling America forever.

For the record this was not a dev company CEO. He's the publisher company CEO, you know, the usual bastards.

Further proof of how many CEOs are psychopaths.

When asked about it AI said "No comment."

Who knew?

I finally got to read this article and the situation is even better/dumber with more context. I didn't realize the layering at first.

This CEO used AI to avoid paying human lawyers to help him figure out how to avoid paying human game developers.

This asshole needs to get some kind of "Yo Dawg I heard you like AI" anti-award.

I don't know any CEOs, but I've known many business owners in my life and I've been one. The majority absolutely despise payroll as their biggest expense. They hate their employees, which will be replaced as soon as technologically and financially possible.

This is why there is a huge push for AI, every one of these greedy bastards would be perfectly fine with replacing every single employee. They see it as an improvement.

We as a society in the USA have gotten businesses backwards and put the cart before the horse, in my opinion. Our goal shouldn't be "shareholders will get the cream of the crop!", that road simply leads to a small group of people being fabulously wealthy, they see their employees as a middle man that they would rather eliminate.

We can change how corporations work at any time, but we'll need to get rid of our government first. They won't legislate themselves out of generational wealth, it's a fantasy to think otherwise. Never, ever in the history of Earth has the ruling class decided "hmmm I'm starting to feel guilty about rolling around in a pool full of gold Krugerands maybe this is a little much"

OP if you're gonna post a paywalled article, can you at least copy the full text of it into the thread? Most of us cannot read more than two paragraphs of this piece, ensuring that most participants here are talking around the headline only.

What did ChatGPT tell him to do, exactly?

Watching a CEO get fucked by using AI is orgasmic.

This is the kind of successful entrepreneur we're supposed to be looking up to, people.

I was against ChatGPT, but now I think it could be useful as a moron honeypot.

I looked up a similar article without a paywall:

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ousted-subnautica-2-devs-allege-krafton-asked-ai-how-to-avoid-paying-bonus/1100-6536280/

"Krafton recently declared itself to be an "AI-first company," which led Unknown Worlds to issue a statement indicating that Subnautica 2 will not feature generative AI."

The "AI first" shit is pure gold. I love the instant karma. Why are these CEOs throwing their money, reputation, etc. away on AI? Either they are even stupider than I thought, or the tech bros have some kind of massive blackmail machine they're using to take over everything and puppet all the CEOs.

Kim: Aw shit I regret my contract. Maybe I can get out of it by lying. I need tons of lies. I need to lie and bullshit like a madman. I need to spout tons of absolute unhinged bullshit with a straight face.

ChatGPT: This. Is. My. Moment.