During a recent talk, Tinybuild CEO Alex Nichiporchik said the publisher has been feeding internal comms into ChatGPT to assess and predict worker behaviour.

Article by GameDeveloper: The CEO of game publisher Tiny Build has boasted that his company uses ChatGPT in order to surveil their employees in order to find what amounts to grounds to fire them. CEO backpedals and claims his statements were “hypothetical”.

  •  gramw   ( @gramw@kbin.social ) 
    8•1 year ago

    Worth reading the article — really disturbing

    Equating toxicity to burnout is misguided at best, but what’s more concerning is the fact that, earlier on in the talk, Nichiporchik spoke about removing problematic players from the company to increase productivity.

    So:

    • burn out your workers because of your inability to identify structural issues in your company
    • spy on your workers to identify those who are struggling the most
    • accuse them of toxicity by blackbox ML metrics
    • fire them and hire some new meat for the grinder