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