"According to a Delaware Chancery Court decision this week, pretty much everything that Kraftron CEO Changhan Kim did at ChatGPT's urging in his bid to avoid that payout turned out to be a gross breach of contract. Per the decision, ChatGPT told Kim that the earnout would be difficult to cancel, but Kim kept pushing the bot, asking it what steps to take anyway."
"At ChatGPT's recommendation, Kim formed a task force with a mandate to either negotiate changes to the earnout or completely take over Unknown Worlds. ChatGPT advised that, were negotiations to fail (which they did), Kraftron should follow a specific sequence of events to ensure its success in the scheme, including preemptively controlling the public narrative by claiming that Subnautica II wasn't ready, and blaming the studio's founders."
"ChatGPT also advised seizing control of distribution platforms like Steam to prevent Unknown Worlds from launching the game, and eventually firing the company's founding trio, with a made-up reason that they intende"
Kraftron CEO Changhan Kim consulted ChatGPT to find ways to avoid paying up to $250 million in earnout bonuses to Unknown Worlds, the studio developing Subnautica II. ChatGPT advised forming a task force to either renegotiate or take over the studio. Following the bot's recommendations, Kim controlled the public narrative by claiming the game wasn't ready, blamed the founders, seized distribution platform control, and fired the founding trio with fabricated reasons. A Delaware Chancery Court ruled that all actions taken at ChatGPT's urging constituted gross breach of contract, rejecting Kraftron's scheme entirely.
Read at Theregister
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]