After Krafton Denied Its CEO Consulted With Chatgpt On The...

Changhan Kim said during testimony that he used ChatGPT "like Google Search."

The legal dispute between Krafton and the former top dogs at Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds is now at the point where the lawyers are fully in control, sifting through the sands of everything everyone's said and done over the past decade or so in search of the Ace Attorney bomb that will blow things wide open. It's something of a drag, to be honest—a lot of he said/she said—but one interestingly odd bit did emerge from the smoke. Krafton CEO Changham Kim reportedly asked ChatGPT to help him figure out how to avoid paying the Subnautica 2 earnout he'd agreed to when acquiring Unknown Worlds.

When asked yesterday whether that claim was accurate, Krafton denied it and described the allegation as a "distraction from [the former Unknown Worlds heads] own efforts to destroy evidence." Court transcripts released today reveal something of a different story, however.

"I started discussing this matter with various teams within the company to find—to figure out what we could do," Kim testified in his deposition (via translator) when asked what he did when he discovered that Subnautica designer and director Charlie Cleveland and Unknown Worlds co-founder Max McGuire weren't directly involved in the development of Subnautica 2.

"So I talked to the legal team, the finance team, and the corporate team and the PR, all these various teams, and I also actually searched on ChatGPT to get faster answers to figure out what kind of rights we have."

When asked why he would consult with ChatGPT on a matter like this, Kim said, "I think, just like everyone else, I am using ChatGPT to get faster answers or responses, just like Google search."

During cross-examination, lawyers for the former Unknown Worlds principals also point out that in a June 2 message sent to Krafton head of corporate development Maria Park, Kim included a ChatGPT link, and subsequently referenced the chatbot's advice directly: "Now, ChatGPT [is] start[ing] to answer that it is difficult to cancel the earn-out," Kim told Park in June. "If so, this is a contract under which we can only be dragged around."

The lawyers also point out that while that particular ChatGPT conversation was subsequently deleted, as was one about a "no-deal scenario" with the studio, others from around the same time still exist. On redirect, Kim said he deleted those queries because "what I learned is that—from OpenAI, is that if you use certain i

Source: PC Gamer