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[Draugoth]

Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of GTA developer Rockstar Games, has reportedly laid off its AI team, including its head of AI.

Take-Two boss Strauss Zelnick has previously plainly stated that AI is incapable of creativity of its own, but this is his strongest message yet that Take-Two's approach to AI bucks an industry trend that has seen more and more studios pivot to AI tools, most recently at the cost of human translators and human-made in-game artwork.

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[saintjules]

 

[BloodFree]

They just weren't prompting it right

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[DEAD ORIGINAL]

Good I prefer humans to AI.

 

[ReyBrujo]

So GTA6 NPCs will throw a rand() % 4 to know which direction to walk to (?)

 

[The Cockatrice]

Business Game Dev  Thread 'Take-Two has seemingly laid off an unspecified portion of its AI team, including its Head of Artificial Intelligence'

Apr 3, 2026

Take-Two has seemingly laid off an unspecified portion of its AI team, including its Head of Artificial Intelligence

Luke Dicken, who previously spent a decade with Zynga, says his time with the company "has come to an end".

www.pcgamer.com

Take-Two Interactive has seemingly laid off its Head of Artificial Intelligence, alongside an unspecified portion of its AI team, just two months after CEO Strauss Zelnick said the Grand Theft Auto 6 publisher was "actively embracing generative AI".

Luke Dicken joined Take-Two as its Head of Artificial Intelligence in January last year following a decade at Zynga, which was acquired by the owner of Rockstar Games in...

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we already had this discussion

 

[Jet Set Willy]

Plot twist is they've replaced their AI team with AI.