{"id":141209,"date":"2026-08-16T00:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/141209\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T00:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:14:12","slug":"saber-ceo-apologizes-to-lead-writer-replaced-with-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/141209\/","title":{"rendered":"Saber CEO Apologizes To Lead Writer Replaced With ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saber Interactive CEO Matt Karch became an easy punching bag over the last few days.<\/a> It followed a dizzying array of statements, backpedals and forward bounds regarding the use of AI in the upcoming game Rideshare \u201cSimulator.\u201d While this kind of flame out from top brass has become increasingly common on the world wide web, the vicious loop may hopefully come to a merciful end as Karch apologizes to the game\u2019s former writer, who said she was fired in favor of AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast night, to my great surprise, I received a long email from Saber Interactive CEO Matt Karch,\u201d posted writer Stella Sacco<\/a>. \u201cHe apologized unreservedly for the awful way he spoke about me in the press. The email\u2019s full text will stay between us\u2026 I\u2019ve been firm from the beginning that I was telling the truth; I think we can all now agree that\u2019s been borne out. Matt expressed a desire to make it right with me; at this time I don\u2019t really know what that looks like for me, and I\u2019ll have to take some time to sit with it, but I do at least accept his apology.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fracasos kicked off following the announcement trailer for Rideshare \u201cSimulator.\u201d\u00a0 While the video takes a jab at Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford<\/a>, it would soon be Saber\u2019s own CEO fending off blows. Sacco, the game\u2019s former lead writer, posted that<\/a> the company replaced her with ChatGPT and wasn\u2019t disclosing it on the Steam page.<\/p>\n

What followed was a volley of statements. First a boilerplate denial from Saber, but then a weird, snarky refutation directly from Karch<\/a>, which claims they intended to add the Steam disclaimer after they \u201cfinalized the feature set,\u201d peppering some flat riffs throughout. \u201cStella who?\u201d Wrote Karch. \u201cI had to ask Claude because I have never spoken to her or seen her.\u201d Giant Bomb performed a dramatic reading of the rant<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Saber updated the Steam page to include an AI disclaimer, revealing that much of its voice overs, music and non-campaign mission dialogue has been generated. Sacco stood her ground, while Karch\u2019s meltdown began to overshadow the game itself. And so, probably for the better, Karch has opted to apologize.<\/p>\n

\u201cApologies are simply in too short a supply these days to spurn one when it\u2019s offered,\u201d wrote Sacco. \u201cGod willing, this is the last statement I\u2019ll need to make about this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saber Interactive CEO Matt Karch became an easy punching bag over the last few days. It followed a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24,580,157,67593,67594],"class_list":["post-141209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-ai","tag-chatgpt","tag-openai","tag-rideshare-stimulator","tag-saber-interactive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}