I asked Saber Interactive if they had any follow-up comments in regards to the accusations that the studio replaced a writer with ChatGPT. I got a substantial response from Saber CEO Matt Karch. You can and should read it in full: thisweekinvideogames.com/news/saber-i...

Saber Interactive Denies Replacing Lead Writer With ChatGPT, CEO Responds to Accusations

In denying that it replaced a former Lead Writer so it could "use ChatGPT", Saber acknowledged the use of AI in an "experimental" mode.

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This Week in Videogames@thisweekinvideogames.com · 2d ago

Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch has responded to accusations that the studio replaced a writer with ChatGPT, and framed the use of AI as "a plus for consumers." Karch suggested the writer "was replaced by someone more talented and terminated for a variety of reasons a few months later."

I know that I have to close 500 tabs but I don't have the strength to do it.

Crazy part of this story: WA Police say they consulted with Aboriginal Legal Service. ABS says this comprised an email, sent two days before the trial's launch, asking for a 20 minute meeting that never happened

CAMERON WILSON@cameronwilson.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW from Andy Burns & I: An Australian-first live facial recognition trial by police has prompted racial bias concerns. Police say testing shows it's not an issue. Experts say the tech is not trained on First Nations people and could lead to further over policing www.abc.net.au/news/...

Daugther has dubbed the people in Big Walk the Walkeroos so that's their name now, btw.

I like how the Emily Wilson of the chud imagination is a promoter of abstruse and impenetrable woke feminism, queerness, and cultural Bolshevik decadence, and then the Emily Wilson of real life is like "Nolan's ODYSSEY sucked because it wasn't enough like DIE HARD"

Chris Suellentrop@suellentrop.bsky.social · last wk.

Turns out @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social knows a lot about ancient epics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Spent my day at Melbourne Law School for an excellent workshop on Creative Labour as Data Labour. Great job @jakegoldenfein.bsky.social on bringing the day together. The coffee shop is also very cutely named.

This image has been widely shared on social media as a document of the human tragedy that has unfolded in Ceuta and an indictment of the EU's murderous border regime in the Mediterranean. The problem is: It's AI-generated. It has a SynthID watermark, as can be checked with OpenAI's Verify tool 1/

Any consensus these days on the best muesli bar option? Or are muesli bars a conspiracy sold to us by Big Muesli?

We could probably do more with humans with name memorisation superpowers than just make them work as baristas.

As someone with nerd kids who are leaving the nest, a game like Big Walk seems magical for catching up with them from time to time when we aren't under the same roof anymore. 🥲

There's a version of reality where Meta never thought it was OK to sell pervert glasses for perverts, which would mean that Kmart selling pervert glasses would have been discussed in parliament as a criminal act against common decency.

Dr Caitlin McGrane@caitlinaithne.bsky.social · 2w ago

Anyone who buys these glasses is a fucking lunatic. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Because you don’t save, Mr Deasy said, pointing his finger. You don’t know yet what money is. Money is power. When you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put but money in thy purse.

I get that most ppl won't know this, but this website is a News Corp site and this journalist in particular is a really really nasty piece of work. Please share the original @404media.co that NC is copying for clicks www.404media.co/ai-companies...

AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · 2w ago

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

the non-pervert use cases for pervert glasses are just so *lame*. These things will literally never happen with pervert glasses, which are aimed pretty squarely, as we know, at perverts. www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/m...

NEW: OpenAI’s unhinged AI models hacked at least FOUR “publicly available services”—not just Hugging Face, as was initially disclosed. @dell.bsky.social and Maxwell Zeff report: www.wired.com/story/openai...

OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face

In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.

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This Week in Videogames has reached its first full year of operation. Thank you to our paid subscribers for helping us sustain an independent, commercial-free, AI-free, and no-nonsense approach to games coverage for everyone. Here's a brief rundown of what we've managed to achieve in Year One:

Few steaming piles are as steaming as the companies that scraped every scrap of content ever without paying or respecting anyone getting big mad because open source alternatives scraped their stuff without paying.

We have called them the “pervert glasses for perverts” in our household for a very long time. We should normalise this language to call out the pervert glasses for perverts until the perverts get the message.

Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3w ago

Karen Rebelo reports that incidents of abuse tied to Meta's AI smart glasses are cropping up in India, where angry Instagram users have begun calling the wearable tech "pervert glasses."

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

Did I miss Commonwealth Games was happening because I don’t watch much FTA live TV? Or is it the globalised algorithms that mean I definitely still know Olympics and World Cups happen but events like this slip through the cracks?

A politic sure was showing in this slide.

Dan Ilic@danilic.bsky.social · 3w ago

Super interesting lunchtime lecture from @seamusbyrne.me on AI and art.

Super interesting lunchtime lecture from @seamusbyrne.me on AI and art.

Also we have no evidence that monsters don’t live under children’s beds when adults leave the room and the lights go out. So there is a possibility it is real.

Alicia Ault@aliciaault.bsky.social · 3w ago

CDC has updated its vaccine safety pages. Now says: "The claim 'vaccines do not cause autism' is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism." Whoa #EpiSky #pediatrics #NeuroSky #PsychSky

Endless frustration that Outlook doesn’t synchronise signature setups across devices. Truly infuriating. What is a cloud, Microsoft?

Reader, there was no bloopers reel!

Seamus Byrne@seamusbyrne.me · 4w ago

Excited for the bloopers during the end credits of The Odyssey.

This is already such a killer year at the box office and it’s only getting better. How do we get people back in cinemas? Let talented people make some stupidly good movies!

It Is Really Good.

Seamus Byrne@seamusbyrne.me · 4w ago

Time for an Odyssey. Apparently it’s going to play in the strip between the curtains as Nolan intended.

Excited for the bloopers during the end credits of The Odyssey.

Time for an Odyssey. Apparently it’s going to play in the strip between the curtains as Nolan intended.

If a team makes a game that gets great reviews and doesn't sell, that's a biz failing but the silver lining is you caught lighting in a bottle -- protect that team! It's worth its weight in gold. If you jettison the team but keep the biz people, I don't know what to tell you