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[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 78 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 8 points 2 months ago

Sounds like our government. It sounds like our whole fucking modern society.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Too bad ChatGPT lacks the self-awareness (let alone any actual reasoning skills whatsoever) to appreciate it.

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[-] disorderly@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

Holy hell, the fact that those slack messages and that chatbot history ended up in court is mind blowing. I guess we should be grateful that this time, the bad guy and his hamfisted "Project X" got put in the spotlight.

[-] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As a brave Ukrainian defender once said, "We are lucky they are so stupid".

[-] VonReposti@feddit.dk 26 points 2 months ago

What's that smell in the air? Is it the smell of Schadenfreude?

[-] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 20 points 2 months ago
[-] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago

Watching a CEO get fucked by using AI is orgasmic.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

The CEO will be fine at the end of the day.

The workers are going to get fucked, though.

[-] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago

At the moment this is a win for the workers. They should get their full share of the payout, now. The main danger is now their parent company may be hostile to them (or even try to close them) until the parent company CEO gets replaced.

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[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

LLMs are fly honey for stupid people.

[-] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 months ago

What a greedy, dumb piece of shit 😂

[-] Red_October@piefed.world 13 points 2 months ago

It's weird, where are all the people who were saying the launch delay was probably for valid reasons? Where are the people saying that it couldn't have all been lies because that would just come out in court? Where are those few vigorous defenders of Krafton now? There's a big plate of shit here and they must be hungry.

[-] TheObviousSolution@thebrainbin.org 13 points 2 months ago

You never go full ChatGPT.

I mean, if this is the way the average CEO is handling ChatGPT, a lot of things start to make sense.

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Im convinced that the CEOs use it to write some emails or brainstorm ideas and suddenly they think it can do everything, so they fire everyone and then everything falls apart because it cant do what they think it can.

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[-] Rothe@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

These greedy morons are getting high off of their own supply

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[-] track_stick_baboon@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] Zink@programming.dev 11 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Jail would be nice. Someone shouldn't be able to drag that many people through that much pain without repercussions beyond having to do the thing they were avoiding to begin with. Banning his stupid ass from running any more companies would be a decent outcome.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

You can have punitive damages too.

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[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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"

[-] fishy@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

100% accurate. I ran a family owned grocery and the owners never shut up about payroll. As soon as I started managing a department it was "you're overstaffed" every flipping week. I explained my plan to use the extra hours to have the employees trained on how to make more prepared food instead of buying the premade junk. They complained and complained until the end of the second month when my numbers for prepared food in that single month grossed enough to pay for the extra staff need for over half the year.

They still complained I was overstaffed.

[-] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks for articulating it this way for me. It's the hypocrisy that gets me, at least in my situation. I reported my boss to the directors. He was (still is) planning to cut a guy from our team, claiming he costs too much. But when I did the math, I found that my boss' personal expenses on food, gas, phone, vehicle, etc. (with increasingly unaccounted-for amounts) are more than that guy's pay.

My boss isn't worried about the financial health of the organization, he's worried he won't be able to keep spending it on himself if he has to pay the workers.

[-] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I've seen "the director" lay off employees on a whim whilst buying a new end table for 30,000 USD. Not a typo, I cut the check.

They'll take all they can, shareholders will let it go as long as the returns are good. In my opinion, a national minimum wage is stupid, but instead workers should be owners.

The profits shouldn't all go to a table full of vultures.

If many had their way,they would be perfectly fine with slavery

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[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 6 points 2 months ago

Exactly, the fact this dude at Krafton can sign 250 million dollars deals but is also dumb enough to think a ChatGPT lawyer knows better than his own lawyers... It goes to show that many powerful people were just lucky or inherited their wealth but are definitely not successful because they are smart.

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[-] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

When I'm in a "make game unattractive to buyers before it comes out" competition and my opponent is Krafton

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[-] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is so dumb. I never believed the hype around CEOs, but I still thought they needed to have something, anything, to reach their position.

But the artificial dumbness time really reveals how many of them had simply dumb luck and no morals. And that was apparently enough for all of human history because their underlings protected them from acting too stupid. And now they think they don't need those underlings anymore. Well, at least I can laugh myself to death before the climate wars.

[-] Rothe@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago

The "no morals" part is their main qualifier

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[-] x3lz@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago

Fuck krafton

[-] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

THAT is what happened?! Wow, that is hilarious!

The legal battle is ongoing, but Kim looks set to lose.

I am SO curious what will happen here and what the final verdict will be. Trying to cheat someone out of 250 million has to result in some enormous fine at least right?

[-] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

I despise "tech bros" at the best of times

There are too many halfwits with solutions desperately searching for a problem

The fact that him sniffing his own farts was his undoing makes me incredibly happy

[-] LapGoat@pawb.social 5 points 2 months ago

this ceo really "worlds smartest baby in 1996"ed himself with this.

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[-] njordomir@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

It's because in order to become a ceo, you have to be a very specific type of person, and the role also attracts this trait of putting money above all else, which fits perfectly to the role.

Imagine if you invested in a company that helmed a ceo that didn't try to make more money. Right? You'd be upset as the investor-role that your money wasn't working for you, and would take the guy out.

This is the common, public opinion.

So the same goes for the CEO: that maximum money be made by being different and taking good chances and staying on top of the technology curve. And OpenAI has been, at least what they, themselves, purport, overwhelmingly successful.

This is all to say that the role of CEO draws a ton of people who think a lot of themselves and their abilities, because they think fake it until you make it is the role, because it largely is: you have to make bets on decisions to lead like that. Which makes CEOs this sort of hollow, fake-person sort of capitalist sociopath.

And them betting on AI-first, then, makes a ton of sense if you're that specific type of person. Because, unless you have your own skills and opinions, you will be beholden to the dumbest, fakest, skewed statistical other bullshitters in the world.

Right now, the companies making all these mistakes that all of us with actual skills and opinions can clearly see, those are just the companies that don't matter, that are leeching off the backs of real industries. Like a group of kids all cheating off each other in a test, and suddenly a bunch of them get the same wrong answer.

They're literally the people, and boards of people who put them there, who have no fucking idea what they're doing, and in my personal opinion, are very clearly illustrating a weak point with society and humanity and our values and structures across the world. We'll get past this one, for sure. But there will be more. That is the both the curse and the gift of existence.

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[-] mouse@piefed.world 3 points 2 months ago

Follow your attorney's advice

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

What a fucking piece of shit.

I have to admit, every time a story like this comes out, it makes me distrust any other large company all the more. When this whole thing first started, I already expected the publisher to be lying. Looks like the pattern holds true!

[-] org@lemmy.org 2 points 2 months ago

I’m so happy it’s not UWE that is the asshole. I love their games.

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