The saga between former Saber Interactive writer Stella Sacco and Saber CEO Matt Karch reaches day three with hardly any progress as Sacco maintains she was fired and replaced with AI, and Karch summons all the antagonism in the galaxy to say she's mistaken. Only one aspect of the spat between them has been resolved: Saber finally added an AI disclosure label to upcoming driving sim Rideshare "Stimulator" on Steam.
Sacco initially wrote in an August 11 Bluesky post about the game, "I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI too. Either they changed direction at some point or they're not disclosing it on Steam." Karch then hit back on August 13 to say "it was always [Saber's] intention to reveal" its AI usage, and that Sacco was actually "terminated for a variety of reasons," though "I would frankly in retrospect have been happy to replace her with AI." Right. Well, though Karch suggested Saber would only update the Rideshare "Stimulator" Steam page with an AI disclosure "once it's finalized," the developer apparently had a change of heart.
