ChatGPT advised exec on how to fire Subnautica founders to avoid payout, court ruling says

One of your studios is about to make a game that you think will be a huge hit, and you don't want to pay the contractually required bonuses. What to do? One Korean CEO turned to ChatGPT to cook up a plan to get his company out of paying up to $250 million. It went about as well as you'd expect.

By that, we mean the inevitable lawsuit we're reporting on today did not go the way that company, Kraftron, would have preferred. 

You may know Kraftron as the Korean publisher that owns Unknown Worlds, the development house behind Subnautica. If so, you're probably also familiar with the kerfuffle around the development and release of Subnautica II.

Early access was supposed to begin in 2025, but Kraftron delayed it, fired the company's founders, and seized control of Unknown Worlds in a bid to get out ...