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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
spongebue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Normally I’m not a fan of AI slop, but it feels like a perfect fit here
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
King? Or Microsoft?
danc4498@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Yes
adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Heh; I remember when Candy Crush was just one guy and an Apple Developer account.
TheBat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I thought those were generated automatically/procedurally already lol
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 3 weeks ago
Same. As much as it sucks, how are 200 people involved in candy crush?
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hopefully the company also creates "A. I. " to play its games as well.
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Already happening.
rhvg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There are still human there?!
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Only in a biological sense. Their sold their souls a long time ago.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Best of luck. Cheers.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They’re getting candy CRUSHED
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That tracks, it’s already slopware.
danc4498@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 2 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 3 weeks ago
Cozy Match3 is much much awesomer
moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Is that surprising? All along these developers have been training their replacement.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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?