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Anna Koselke

Krafton CEO confirms he "actually searched on ChatGPT" for "faster answers" amid legal battle with former Subnautica 2 leads, after the publisher dubbed accusations of chatbot use "a last-ditch effort"

Subnautica 2.

Amid the recently concluded litigation between Subnautica 2 publisher Krafton and the game's original developers following leadership changes and a subsequent 2026 delay – Subnautica 2's former leads claim they're owed a whopping $250 million – accusations involving AI chatbot ChatGPT have surfaced.

As a quick recap – Unknown Worlds (the studio behind the development of Subnautica 2) founders Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire, along with former CEO Ted Gill, claimed that they're owed money for hitting revenue milestones after Krafton's $500 million acquisition in 2021. More recently, the three devs accused Krafton lead Kim Chang-han of using ChatGPT "to help him brainstorm ways to avoid paying the earnout."

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