Rockstar Games Workers Union that represents Rockstar Games employees has held their first formal meeting with company leadership, 4 months ahead of GTA 6’s launch. The opening demands make …
“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”
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.
“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”
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.
You’d need to turn off CoPilot to satisfy “No AI”