Ousted Subnautica 2 founders fight Krafton over ChatGPT records as the publisher accuses them of deleting and stealing data: "'Make sure there's nothing incriminating'"
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Ashley Bardhan
2025-11-17
Subnautica 2 creators are now locking their missiles on Krafton's ChatGPT logs as they continue their legal tussle over their sudden firing in July. But publisher Krafton is lobbing its own projectiles back at its ex-employees, claiming the former executives at developer Unknown Worlds are guilty.
It's another nasty skirmish in what's already been a gruesome battle for $250 million, which Unknown Worlds founders Charlie Cleveland and Max McGuire, along with ex-CEO Ted Gill, claim they're owed for reaching revenue milestones following Krafton's $500 million acquisition in 2021.
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"ChatGPT" appears 23 times in the document; Krafton insists that Cleveland, Gill, and McGuire's efforts to acquire its chatbot search history are "a last-ditch effort to find something, anything, to support its claims," and it laments that "Plaintiff demanded Mr. Kim conduct the search and make the production over his lunch break."
Anyway, Krafton says, what about the Plaintiff's skeletons?
"Waiting until it was too late for Krafton to counter was likely intentional," the publisher asserts, "given that the Key Employees have apparently spoliated relevant ChatGPT data." Krafton alleges that, on the day they were all fired, Cleveland told Gill and McGuire in a group chat, "Quick reminder: check your company ChatGPT account to make sure there's nothing incriminating there."
Krafton alleges this chat was used to discuss "their disputes with Krafton (including their theft of company confidential information)".
"We were forced to make a change when the former leaders showed little interest in the development of Subnautica 2, which has always been our top priority. Now, this trial comes down to plaintiffs asking to be restored to jobs they were not doing, said they had no interest in doing, and had previously declined requests that they come back and do those jobs."
In its opposition document, Krafton maintains that Cleveland, Gill, and McGuire "had been lying for years about their involvement at Unknown Worlds, which was almost none."
"Unfortunately, the Key Employees were only focused on securing more money for themselves," argues the publisher.
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potatoking
Nov 27, 03:29 PM
you know what I mean Difficult to explain. .Fairly decent.
debug_this
Nov 18, 01:18 PM
xdd really hard ._.
theLazyComet
Nov 18, 11:38 AM
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plasticBagHero
Nov 18, 08:58 AM
I borrowed it. you know what i mean Could be worse. Toxic community,
runnyEgg
Nov 18, 06:18 AM
yada yada yada Really bad.
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