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CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court (www.404media.co)
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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 31 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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?

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The CEO having the direct ability to post to the company website is wild on its own. Everywhere I have ever worked nothing got on the company website unless it went through the marketing people at a minimum. If it was from someone like the CEO it probably went through the legal team as well first.

[–] Shayeta@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

More likely those in charge of moderation deliberately allowed him to shoot himself in the foot, given the kind of ass he is.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Krafton is South Korean. How's the corporate culture in South Korea? Are they as ritual-suicide-for-going-home-before-the-boss-does as Japan?

[–] Beero@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Basically same problems as Japan. Low birth rate, unrealistic work life balance that's helped GDP but now both are facing demographic shock that'll destroy the economy in a generation.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Considering Moon Channel's video on South Korea (tldw; he explains around 24:40 in the video how strongly neoconfucianism became the state ideology and that still endures to this day - and how highly important hierarchy is), I would say that yes, an underling would NEVER dare go against someone above them.

[–] Tenderizer@aussie.zone 12 points 1 week ago

Just make me CEO of a company. Surely I can't do worse than the crop of people they're currently finding.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 10 points 2 weeks ago

C-level jobs tend to attract a particular type of personality...

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

First thing I remember hearing was Krafton announcing that Subnautica would be a live service multiplayer game, and then Unknown Worlds coming right in behind saying No the hellfuck it's not! It's going to be a cooperative multiplayer game that players host locally, and we'll be doing an early access campaign with continuing updates after the 1.0 release just like we did with Subnautica 1.

It has spiraled from there.