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Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

The company behind Candy Crush is preparing to lay off around 200 employees amid a push to replace designers, researchers, and creative staff with AI.

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The company behind Candy Crush is preparing to lay off around 200 employees amid a push to replace designers, researchers, and creative staff with AI.

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Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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Candy Crush studio hit by layoffs as AI takes over design and writing work
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Sources familiar with the situation, speaking on condition of anonymity due to fear of reprisal, told Mobile Gamer Biz that employees in departments such as level design...
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    Good. It’s soul crushing to think that actual humans deliberately made the crap in that app.

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      Normally I’m not a fan of AI slop, but it feels like a perfect fit here

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    King? Or Microsoft?

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      Good point. This is a pilot program for Microsoft. All negative press gets associated with King. Even the Wikipedia shows “Activision” as the parent company as if to buffer negative news from Microsoft.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Yes

  • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    I thought those were generated automatically/procedurally already lol

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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    Heh; I remember when Candy Crush was just one guy and an Apple Developer account.

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    Hopefully the company also creates "A. I. " to play its games as well.

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      Already happening.

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    Best of luck. Cheers.

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    There are still human there?!

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    While most companies replacing employees with AI usually ends in failure for the company, I believe AI will be able to make games like this just as effectively, if not more.

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    I don’t see any way this can go wrong. And even if it does, it’s dead easy to rehire talent. /s

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    That tracks, it’s already slopware.

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    “If we can just get rid of all the humans, I’ll have a machine that prints me free money!”

    This is all that the AI push is about. It really is that stupid. Nobody is going to ever pay for AI if they aren’t employed anymore.

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    They’re getting candy CRUSHED

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    Cozy Match3 is much much awesomer

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