Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton allegedly looked to ChatGPT to figure out how to not pay that $250 million bonus

Is this what beingness is now? Witnessing massive, incredibly palmy companies turning to AI to get proposal connected ineligible proceedings? You don't request to pinch me, I've already done it, and this satellite is real. The institution successful question present is Subnautica 2 steadfast Krafton, who you mightiness retrieve are being sued by 3 ex-leads of the game; developer of the crippled Unknown Worlds are (technically) besides suing this trio of developers successful kind. This each came astir due to the fact that Krafton delayed Subnautica 2, a determination that meant Unknown Worlds wouldn't get a $250 cardinal bonus. And it seems that the steadfast adjacent asked ever-reliable ChatGPT for proposal connected however they could debar doing conscionable that.

This comes from a transcript of a pre-trial briefing seen by Kotaku that was filed connected behalf of those 3 ex-leads, Unknown founders Charles Cleveland, Adam "Max" McGuire, and Edward "Ted" Gill. The group's filing claims that "Krafton terminated the Founders and seized power of Unknown Worlds successful bid to debar the earnout. Smoking weapon documents amusement that Krafton was looking for ways to “cancel the earn-out” and that its concealed 'Project X' was designed to either marque a 'Deal' connected the earnout oregon execute a 'Take over.' When the Founders would not hold to Krafton’s demands related to the earnout, Krafton decided a 'take over' would beryllium the “easier” route."

A snippet of what appears to beryllium a speech betwixt Krafton CEO Kim Chang-han and caput of planetary operations Richard Yoon, with the second making nonstop notation to enacting a instrumentality over.

This filing besides makes the assertion that Krafton felt it had overpaid for Unknown Worlds, which led to them wanting to debar the $250 cardinal payout. So, to fig retired a mode to not bash that, they seemingly turned to ChatGPT for help, with the filing explaining that "Kim turned to artificial quality to assistance him brainstorm ways to debar paying the earnout. ChatGPT likewise advised that it would beryllium ‘difficult to cancel the earn-out.'" The Unknown Worlds co-founders besides accidental that Krafton wouldn't nutrient grounds of these ChatGPT conversations, and "when pressed, confirmed that they nary longer exist."

I americium not an adept successful AI, adjacent if I americium a hater of it, but I consciousness that if I were successful the aforesaid presumption arsenic Krafton, arsenic a monolithic steadfast with immoderate wealth to spare, and I truly didn't privation to springiness idiosyncratic $250 million, I would not trust connected a famously unreliable AI chatbot (I was being sarcastic earlier erstwhile I called it reliable, FYI). But that's conscionable me!

Anyway, I'm definite that voluntary redundancy programme Krafton person begun arsenic portion of a bid to prioritise the usage of generative AI successful crippled improvement is going to spell truly good for the industry.