10 Video Game Embarrassments You Won't Believe
2. The Lord Of The Rings: Gollum's Developer Apology Was Written By ChatGPT
We're no doubt all familiar with the cliched, ever-expected "developer apology" tweet which typically gets sent out a few days after a new game launches in a less-than-acceptable state.
And the atrocious The Lord of the Rings: Gollum was certainly no exception to this, which released to the worst reviews of any mainstream video game this year (so far).
Just a day after Gollum hit storefronts, developer Daedalic Entertainment tweeted a formal apology for the game's poor quality - a totally standard, boilerplate concessionary statement, it appeared.
Yet recently, several former Daedalic staff members told German gaming outlet GameTwo that the apology itself had actually been drafted by the AI chatbot ChatGPT, and that Daedalic themselves had no knowledge of it - it was instead independently created by publisher Nacon.
It's a jaw-droppingly cheeky act of soulless, insincere corporate apologia anyway you slice it, and the fact that nobody at Nacon even proofread the apology enough to notice that it referred to the game as "The Lord of Ring: Gollum" is perhaps the greatest indication that this project just didn't have enough care put into it at any level.