Every time I see this headline they've added an additional thing that's AI generated.

Rideshare Stimulator ? 🤨

EDIT: wtf it's not a typo

"Here’s more truth: that statement is remarkably pathetic for the CEO of any company to be making, and combined with the AI use it will do far more damage to Saber’s reputation than it ever could mine. This screed will be many people’s first exposure to the Saber brand."

She nailed that analysis

The game also includes a mix of radio stations featuring human-made music and AI-generated music

This is probably the wrong audience to ask but if you don't give a shit at all about the quality of the music, why not just use royalty-free music? Isn't that easier? And cheaper?

After watching the trailer, the AI-generated dialogue is (predictably) just terrible.

I just don't understand this shit at all. You're Coca-Cola and spend $5 b-b-billion/year on advertising but you're gonna skimp and save like $1k on paying a human to create quality content and instead just outsource it to shitty AI-generated images? WTF is happening?

Also unrelated but why is "Stimulator" in quotes? Who are they quoting? Is it facetious? Is it not a stimulator? Is it supposed to be some kind of terrible joke?

Ah cool. So they didn’t bother to make a game but want people to buy it. No thanks.

So there will be some sort of punishment from Steam for lying about their game on the store, right?

E: I retract, as the game was not released yet.

Rideshare simulator...isn't this just shitty Crazy Taxi? Or the cab side missions in GTA3?

I've bever heard of this game, now I'm seeing multiple articles on it. Could this be a marketing tactic?

Fucking garbage.

The fact that people are spending so much time in games doing something menial they could be actually doing in real life, bothers me terribly.

I mean, wasting hundreds of hours in a game isn't healthy at all, but I completely understand why you'd want to be a super elf, or explorer Big Boobassa, or a magic plumber escaped from the drudgery of the poo, or any of the others. But, not cleaning your room so you can play "Clean Your Room", in which you are a regular human and it takes just as long to clean but in the end you still have a baseball hat full of cream cheese under your bed in the real world, speaks to a mind and society of eldrich horrors withering souls to tiny raisins and collecting them like candy for aeternal snacking.

"Hey heeee! Come on over! Have some fun with CRAZY dead-inside taxi!"

Glad I blocked them on Steam. The odds of me actually buying one of their games anyway was fairly low until a couple of days ago. Now it's zero.

Weird AI disclosure:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2366590/Rideshare_Stimulator/

AI Generated Content Disclosure:
The main Campaign story, characters, and dialogue are written by a team of human writers.

Why would you put in things that specifically are not AI in an AI disclosure?
Is that normal?

Sorry, why is it a stimulator and not a simulator?

I read the article just to confirm this wasn't a The Onion article. I understand there are games that simulate work like farming and even powerwashing. Even though I don't play those, I can mildly see the appeal as you're creating something (farming) or making something better than it was before (powerwashing). However, I see zero appeal for a game that simulates gig work like ridesharing. Can someone explain it to me, or have I reach a pivotal "too old" moment in my life?

What in the world? Was this article written by AI too?

“They took me off the project to use ChatGPT to write the rest of the text, including planned live updates," she insisted in an email chat with Percival Gamer.

"Percival Gamer" being a link to PC gamer.

Karch has also spoken to Ian Games.

"Ian Games" being a link to IGN.