Overview
- Former Saber writer Stella Sacco said on Aug. 11 that she was the lead writer on Rideshare “Stimulator” before the studio used ChatGPT to produce passenger dialogue, and she supplied a 2023 screenshot she says supports her claim.
- Saber has denied replacing writers, told reporters the game’s main story was written by humans, and confirmed generative AI will be used only for an “experimental” free‑ride mode that must handle an effectively infinite number of passengers.
- CEO Matthew Karch made combative public comments that he would have been “happy” to replace the writer with AI, and those remarks have intensified the dispute and drawn strong community criticism.
- Saber described the actual workflow as writers creating offline prompts, batch‑generating dialogue with AI, then editing and verifying those lines before they are added to the experimental mode, and the company pledged to update the Steam page with an AI disclosure once the feature set is finalized.
- The episode has widened industry debate about disclosure and labor, with immediate effects on Rideshare’s public reception and the risk of broader scrutiny or policy pressure if players and creators demand clearer labeling and stronger guardrails.