King Staff Laid Off By Xbox Reportedly Replaced By AI Tools They Helped Train

We're in a strange place with artificial intellig♒ence (AI). Executives, eternally eager for annual growth, aren't quite sure how they can use AI to create more wealth, but they're trying in any way they can find. In other words, capitalism hasn't yet found the ni🌜ches where AI makes or loses money for corporations.

Xbox has undergone fo🥃ur rounds of layoffs in the last eighteen months, with the most recent round being the most devastating of all, prompting numerous project cancellations and a studio closure.

One of the studios affected was King, developer of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Candy Crush. King was acquired by Xbox in the mas🅰sive $69 billion acquisition of Activision-Blizza✃rd-King, and now the studio is set to absorb 200 cut jobs.

In response to the layoffs, Matt Turnbull, an executive producer at Xbox Game Studios Publishing, sugge📖sted that laid-off staff use limited langꦜuage models (such as Copilot or ChatGPT) to seek career advice♔.

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According to a report from , former staff members a♏re reporting that Microsoft is replacing their role🍰s with artificial intelligence tools that were created by laid-off staff.

"Most of the level design has been wiped, which is crazy since they've s♚pent months building tools to craft levels quicker," a staffer told Mobilegamer.biz. "Now those AI tools are basically replacing the teams. Similarly the copywriting team is completely removing people since we now have AI tools that those indivi⛦duals have been creating."

"The fact AI tools are replacing people is absolutely disgusting but it's all about efficiency and profits even though the company is doing great overall," th꧅ey continued. For context, King's parent company, Microsoft, earned $171 billion in profit last year.

An internal survey by King suggests t♊hat morale is at an all-time low, and staff that complain publicly about the company's human resources department have been targeted in the layoffs.

King's human resources team has been described as an "e🔯xtreme case" of priori🐻tising company interests over employee interests.

The Lo𝓀ndon-based Farm Heroes Saga team is set to be heavily affected by the layoffs, as their team is being🅺 reduced by half to just 50 people.