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So. For those of you who didn't pay attention to the details of the legal spat between Krafton and Unknown Worlds, allow me to give you some details of the finest legal comedy of a generation.
Krafton CEO looks at the hype surrounding Subnautica 2, goes over the contract between Krafton and Unknown Worlds, realizes he'll have to pay out bonuses and freaks out because shelling out those bonuses will make him look like a pushover.
CEO goes to his legal department, asks them to come up with a plan to weasel out of paying bonuses. Legal tells him the contract is iron-clad and to accept the loss.
CEO refuses to take the loss, asks ChatGPT for a plan. ChatGPT says the exact same thing the legal department did.
CEO demands a plan from ChatGPT, which dutifully spits out a plan at this point because clearly the CEO is a goddamn idiot.
CEO deletes the chat logs, failing to understand that 'delete' doesn't permanently remove things.
CEO follows plan, and is surprised when Unknown Worlds sues for breach of contract despite being told by both humans and an LLM that is exactly what would happen.
Court does not go well for Krafton's legal department. It comes out that after ignoring the sound legal advice of human beings, the CEO went to ChatGPT and asked for a plan. When asked for the logs by the court, Krafton's legal team states they were deleted, thus that it's simply herersay. Judge goes "Oh, that's okay, we'll have our IT folks recover them." Krafton's legal team is astounded that's even possible.
The chat logs are recovered. It comes out that even ChatGPT was in agreement with Krafton's legal department, and only spat out a plan after being asked a second time.
The judge, now thoroughly done with the stupidity of Krafton's CEO at this point, rules in favor of Unknown Worlds. Her ruling doesn't simply undo the scheme, but effectively leaves all control over Subnautica 2's development in the hands of Unknown Worlds, including the early access release date, reducing Krafton to just publishing out of contractual obligation. Krafton must also return all social media platforms for Unknown Worlds and Subnautica 2 to Unknown Worlds' control. Financial damages will be determined at a later date.
Krafton proceeds to violate the court order in less than 72 hours by trying to set an early access release date before returning Unknown Worlds' social media platforms.
Summary: In trying not to look like a pushover, Krafton's CEO now looks like a complete idiot who's going to have to fork over bonuses, plus court-mandated damages, plus whatever comes out of violating the court's orders. Krafton's legal department may as well come to court dressed as clowns after this. I suspect Unknown Worlds might buy the rights to Subnautica back after all this and either relegate Krafton to just publishing or find a different publisher for future games altogether.
btw, Steam is currently having an "ocean fest" where they showcase all the ocean themed games on the store
which they obviously decided to do by complete coincidence and didn't mean to say anything by this or anything 🙂
The people who insist AI is smarter than a human are doing their fucking damnedest to manifest that
Не верите. Доверите.
Do not trust: verify.
If you want to just phone in your marriage from the start, sure, go ahead!
Why do developers/publishers feel the need to have limited-time demos? I've been busy with life and just now had the time and energy to sit down and try out some of the demos I downloaded from the latest Steam Next Fest, and I haven't been able to play two of them because they stopped working after the event. What is the POINT of that? Creating artificial scarcity is not revving my engine here.
Fine. I'll play one of the demos that STILL WORK and probably give THOSE GAMES my money. Thanks.
My hobby is slowly dying. Seems like I can't go a day without being disappointed that developers used genAI in some way in making their game. I don't care if you "just" used it for store art on your Steam page, or if you plan on replacing it with actual art later, you STILL used AI and helped support the fucking monster. So fuck you, genAI-using game developers.
Guess I'm not done complaining.
You can't even trust pixel art games anymore. This is one of the games I came across today which set me off: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3433110/Cinema_Theater_Tycoon/
I was excited to see this because I love management games, and finding one using pixel art is not as common nowadays because everything has to be first-person 3D.
Normally, I'd assume this was safe from the taint of genAI, but I still have to look for the "AI Generated Content Disclosure" at the bottom of the page, and lo and behold, there it was:
The game includes over 1,000 movie posters that were converted into pixel-art using an AI tool and then manually retouched by the team. This approach was chosen because pixeling each poster entirely by hand would have been too time-consuming for a small team. All other visuals and animations in the game were drawn and animated entirely by hand.
In the long run, the team plans to gradually replace these posters with original, hand-drawn artwork after the game’s release.
Well, guess what? Now I'm not buying your game. If the plan is to eventually have all the posters be hand-drawn anyway, why use genAI? Why even bother replacing them now?
I have no respect for you.
My hobby is slowly dying. Seems like I can't go a day without being disappointed that developers used genAI in some way in making their game. I don't care if you "just" used it for store art on your Steam page, or if you plan on replacing it with actual art later, you STILL used AI and helped support the fucking monster. So fuck you, genAI-using game developers.
Man I mean. Like what’s even the point man.
Great news there is a way to put in 0 thought or effort and just click one button and get a cool and interesting song it's called Supporting A Real Artist you can do this by streaming their music or buying their albums.
And if you still miss writing a sentence you can exercise that by writing "Yay I love this song so much thanks for making it 🙂" in any comment section. We've got the whole thing figured out.
HOW TO TURN OFF GOOGLE AI in GMAIL:
Open Gmail in your browser
Click on the Gear Icon ⚙️ in the upper right
In the General Tab, scroll down to "Smart Features" and UNCHECK THE BOX. It is about halfway down.
Then, right below that is Google Workspace smart features. Click on the "Manage Workspace Smart Features" and make sure both toggles are OFF
Thank goodness Steam games have to disclose when they use generative AI. It makes it so much easier to ignore games and never see them again.
(This post brought to you by Steam's current Shop Keeper event, which has A LOT of games that use genAI)
SHE’S BACK
I saw this on the news feed when I opened Firefox, and before I noticed the source, I thought it was just talking about paying actual humans to shoot other actual humans.
Just had someone refer to a part of my personal history they didn't know about as "crazy lore," which was actually kind of cool.