“No AI” is not going to happen in 2026 (I don’t know how they actually phrased the demand and it depends on how you interpret “No AI” but 🤷. “No Layoffs” may be more possible. It’d require rockstar to shift the positions that are more elastic to contractors. Fair and hopefully workable in the bargaining agreement.
“No Crunch” is interesting. I am not inside the game industry. But I have heard that Crunch is endemic in some companies cultures and pretty widespread across the industry. Curious how that one shakes our.It’s a defence mechanism. You can still do your job without ai. Fully embracing without any boundaries is gonna end up execs just cutting jobs thinking ai can do it anyway.
If there’s a friction of use of ai, when it becomes a must thing to use while working, that rule is going to help to introduce ai in a reasonable manner to people’s work life.
I am absolutely sure they know it’s a useful tool. unions are about to keep people their jobs, rather than helping corporations short term profits (which is current ai hype where even drinking water is sold with an ai label for some reason)
Fair and valid point. I don’t know what they actually asked for. All I was saying is that any company of rockstars size cannot go “No AI” in any way that would satisfy a strict reading of the phrase.
Are they gonna turn CoPilot off for everyone? I’d say that would violate “No AI”
“No AI” is not going to happen in 2026
Apparently someone doesn’t understand how unions work and who has the actual power
Ok let’s unpack “No AI”. No AI in the software they use? No vendors that use AI? No AI for internal functions like HR?
I clearly stated that I had not read into the details but there is no way a major corporation can actually claim “No AI is in any of our processes” in 2026.
The problem is, it’s not gonna’ happen. Rockstar print money so they will be able to pay their way around these demands. Enough people will buy GTA6 that the union demands will be ignored.
Thats not how this works. Union contracts are legally binding, violating one means not only usually a fine but rectifying whatever they did that broke the contract in the first place. And if the contract is broken and the union feels like they haven’t sufficiently remedied the situation then they will call for a more direct action like a strike. Unions offer legal protection, but also a fast and efficient way to organize more serious interventions from the workforce. The whole point of unions is to control the impulses of the hyper rich, so if being rich was enough unions wouldn’t exost at all.
Yeah, I’m sure Rockstar will play ball.
Are they willing / able to hold GTA6 hostage over this? Because if they aren’t, the corp’s just gonna lay them off anyway and bring in a skeleton crew to make Content™ for the inevitable forever GAAS they’ll be stapling to the game.
They’re in the UK. UK has actual laws about union busting. They’re already on a trial for union busting they did before to this actual union.
What I don’t understand is what even is the point in crunch time for Rockstar? The game is already being delayed by over a year so it’s not like they have some target release date they need to stick to. If it needs another 6 months it needs another 6 months, I’m beyond caring at this point.
It’s amazing that a company that takes over a decade to make a game would even need a time crunch
They’re owned by shareholders. If they’re not at least seen to be mistreating staff and ripping off customers, then the CEO isn’t doing their job right.
They’re also on the S&P 500 so if they’re not doing it, they’re fucking us all (or our retirements) over. Though personally I moved all of my retirement monies outside of American funds (which I can do because I’m not American), a lot of funds worldwide still invest in the big American market ETFs.
That’s not true, because they don’t need to fuck over the employees to make profits. You could treat them well and still make plenty of money for everyone. Don’t let them lie to you
GTA V will be 14 years old at the time of release of VI. They have zero excuses in my book. They should’ve had everything but the technical details of VI mapped out and ready for development 12 years ago.
I wonder if we can thank all the degenerates buying Shark cards for killing off GTA and Red Dead Redemption DLCs, and the long long gap between the GTA sequel due to pivoting to live service revenue.
I partially agree. The other issue was how time consuming they made accruing wealth. I did races to build up the funds to do heist. Then i had some jackass tell me they wont do the missions until everyone gets an equal share. I had to tell them i get a bigger cut because i fronted the money.
GTA6 announcement: it will be delayed until 2030.
I might actually buy it if that were the case. Lol
