Randy Pitchford

I use ChatGPT essentially as a search engine. I recently started fooling around with the image generation as some friends were goofing around with making it try to make pictures of itself. Prompt was: “Make a picture of yourself as if you worked at my company, Gearbox Software.” My friends I was with for lunch earlier produced some funny things with similar prompts for themselves and I wanted to see what bullshit it would generate as an idea of a self identity because the idea of an AI even having an identity is nonsense. The result was somehow more embarrassingly hilarious than I expected and I wanted to share that. ChatGPT has no information from me about anything from my work because I don’t use AI for work and our policy is no AI in any work that could ever be seen by any customer. I’m using my personal phone and not my work computer (which is isolated from personal systems). It got whatever it generated from whatever public knowledge of Gearbox it has access to (hence my very clear disclaimer) and the timing or content of this has exactly zero to do with whatever feelings you’ve spun yourself up about with patch notes. I’m glad you like our video games. We work hard to try to entertain you. We’re not machines. We are people. We aren’t perfect. We are messy. Especially me. Maybe relax a little and have some fun? Creating entertainment is my life mission. You are a customer, presumably, because you want to be entertained. If your idea of being entertained is to spend your time posting what you posted, you do you, I guess. Thanks for supporting our human-made entertainment, warts and all!

@MyGamingThumbs The point was to make the AI make a picture of how it saw itself to put a lens on the absurdity of the idea of AI having an identity. In what universe does what you suggest have anything to do with the point?

@DuvalMagic A real photo of you working in your office taken by a Gearbox employee would have been much better received. Another talented employee could have edited in things you wanted to spruce it up.

I asked my primary AI tool to generate a selfie that indicates how they feel based on how I interact with it and this is what it generated (note: background words were not prompted and have zero relationship to anything real).

@Slaccoon_ Our policy is that we do not use AI for anything in any professional capacity that any customer could ever see.

@DuvalMagic My first thought was to reply "and I thought gearbox is anti-ai 🙄" but then I remembered that here on twitter you're not really posting as a representative of gearbox and more like just a personal account thing lol Almost jumped to conclusions too early

@PapaBonner Our policy is that we do not use AI for anything in any professional capacity that any customer could ever see.

@DuvalMagic This seriously makes me afraid your company is willing to use AI in the making of future games, and I will be seriously critical of any future Gearbox games directly because of this post.

@gigaslyce Yeah, AI sucks! Did you forget the caption?

@DuvalMagic current focus: talent. Shoot for the moon! Even if you miss, you'll... something...something....god you wish you had some badly, don't you? did you forget the logo has a gap between the cog? ahhh right, i remember now. your so out of ideas the cog is at a dead stop ain't it?

@SMthegamer1 @ChaoticAigis420 You know that my twitter is not a customer experience, right?

@DuvalMagic @ChaoticAigis420 You know you posted the AI image above publicly right?

@jtrothrock76 @ChaoticAigis420 Errors in patch notes are human error.

@DuvalMagic @ChaoticAigis420 Randy, I think the player base would implore you to go back and read those notes. Sentences that made no sense. Misspellings. Description of a shield that was noted as a grenade. If they weren't that's fine however they read as they weren't even proofread. Not what we're used to

@Byrdman If you think my tweet is “normalizing generative AI” you’re a fool.

@DuvalMagic Normalizing generative AI hurts people in your business. Sure whatever it’s silly, but continuing to feed the machine isn’t it.

Which best describes you and your behavior on twitter?

@ChaoticAigis420 Wtf are you talking about? Our policy is that we do not use AI for anything in any professional capacity that any customer could ever see.

@DuvalMagic Randy this is not helping the last BL4 patch notes being written by AI

@A5HR0B3RT50N I hope not. I hoped someone would have the same reaction I had, “Well that’s dumb and silly. Haha. This is what the AI generates as itself? Wtf?!?”

@DuvalMagic What were you hoping to achieve with this post? Are we supposed to be impressed?

@Snowgard_ Wtf are you talking about? I asked the AI to make a picture of itself. It’s crazy, right? Can’t you find any joy in something silly and stupid?

@DuvalMagic Randy do not use AI this way you are running a gaming company and thing will turn on you very very quickly

@whatevereverig @clover24787489 Someone gets it and knows how to enjoy dumb, silly, stupid things!

@clover24787489 @DuvalMagic i don’t think he’s promoting it just fucking around with it

@Bullseye_wb Don’t make this something it isn’t. It’s just a dumb, silly thing.

@DuvalMagic The only people that like Ai are old people that don't know the difference and executives that want to use it to reduce head count and cut costs.....

@Byrdman I’m going to pretend you know how to be cool and enjoy silly things.

@DuvalMagic I’m going to pretend you didn’t post an AI image like it would be received well and focus on that white board that says “new IP”

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