Good. It’s soul crushing to think that actual humans deliberately made the crap in that app.
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.
Submitted 1 month ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.techspot.com/news/108684-candy-crush-studio-hit-layoffs-ai-takes-over.html
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scarabic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
spongebue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Normally I’m not a fan of AI slop, but it feels like a perfect fit here
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 1 month ago
King? Or Microsoft?
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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 1 month ago
Yes
adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Heh; I remember when Candy Crush was just one guy and an Apple Developer account.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I thought those were generated automatically/procedurally already lol
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 month ago
Same. As much as it sucks, how are 200 people involved in candy crush?
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hopefully the company also creates "A. I. " to play its games as well.
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Already happening.
rhvg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There are still human there?!
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Only in a biological sense. Their sold their souls a long time ago.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Best of luck. Cheers.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They’re getting candy CRUSHED
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That tracks, it’s already slopware.
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t see any way this can go wrong. And even if it does, it’s dead easy to rehire talent. /s
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
“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.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Cozy Match3 is much much awesomer
moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Is that surprising? All along these developers have been training their replacement.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 1 month ago
These games should be illegal anyways. They’re basically creating an algorithm that inhibits you to influence you to pay anyways. Not a game with gameplay but an actual business and this is just the business model layered like a game.
moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Yep. I assume since Candy Crush hasn’t been culturally relevant for like 10 years that it’s on its last leg anyway and this is a desperate attempt to prop up a dying company. Though I’m afraid to check though because I don’t want to see that it’s still posting record profits year after year.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was looking for some games to pass time in waiting rooms etc and was disappointed to see even Bejeweled has ‘contains ads’ & ‘in-app purchases’ warnings on play store. Why can’t I outright buy it like I already have on Steam?