Overview
- Borderlands 4 players questioned the April 30 patch notes after repetitive, generic lines and errors such as using “acid” instead of the game’s “Corrosive” term.
- Randy Pitchford posted a ChatGPT‑generated “selfie” on Sunday that included a whiteboard with phrases like “Borderlands 4,” which fueled fresh concern about AI use.
- Following Monday’s backlash, Pitchford said Gearbox bans AI from any work that customers could see and said he does not use AI for his job.
- He added that he made the image on his personal phone rather than work systems and said the patch‑note mistakes were human errors, not AI output.
- The flap spotlights wider industry testing of generative AI, and Take‑Two’s interest in the tech has put extra scrutiny on Gearbox’s stance and communications.