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AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event(Gamescom) Booked Random Meetings for Attendees (i.imgur.com)
submitted 4 months ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36027977

Gamescom's app added an AI feature this year and it did not go well. Folks were overwhelmed with automatically generated meeting requests that they did not want. It generated a lot of stuff, but not value. They just sent everyone an apology email and disabled the AI.

Source: freelance product and UX designer Robiny-Yann Storm on Bluesky.

The Gamescom app AI-generating meetings you have to manually decline is absolutely heinous shit

Source: Chris Schilling, the editorial director of Lost In Cult on Bluesky.

How it started vs how it’s going after dozens of Devcom spam meeting confirmations for AI organized meetings I neither asked for wanted

An email with white text in a black background that says “Hello JC,Our AI meeting generator has sent you a meeting suggestion with a person who matches your interests. 📅 Don't miss an opportunity - accept requests! Why don't you exchange ideas? Who knows what great things will come of it... 💡 Good luck Your gamescom biz team”An email with white text in a black background that says “Hello JC, We tested a new feature today - the AI meeting generator. The aim was to suggest suitable business contacts based on your profiles and make it easier for you to plan your trade fair contacts. However, your honest feedback shows us that this feature does not provide the desired added value. We have therefore decided to completely remove the automatically generated meetings from your profiles. Thank you for your openness. Your feedback is a central component of our further development - together we will make the platform better.”

Wait so, not even suggestions, just full-on booking a meeting for both sides without confirmation?

Yuppppp one of my friends shared this, mine wasn’t that bad but I don’t know how Informa keeps getting stacks of money for a conference and roll out something this screwed up

A bunch of messages saying “New meeting, Congratulatons! You have a new confirmation”

Source: Developer JC Lau on Bluesky.

As a diagnosed autistic man who needs a schedule, this just gave me a minor panic moments before boarding my flight. Gamescom do not do this!!! Who on earth thought this was a good idea??? Anyway, check your schedules friends

Text says "gamescom 2025 Hello Henry, Our AI meeting generator has sent you a meeting suggestion with a person who matches your interests. 📅 Don't miss an opportunity - accept requests!Why don't you exchange ideas? Who knows what great things will come of it... 💡Good luck Your gamescom biz team Check your schedule now!"

Source: Henry Stockdale, a senior editor at UploadVR, on Bluesky.

Anyone else’s #gamescom app booked in meetings without your knowledge? I’ve got 9x AI-created meetings that have all been “accepted” by the other attendee… but after speaking to one they’ve confirmed they didn’t know about it either. How do I stop this @gamescom?!

Source: Graham Day, a Twitch partner on X/Twitter.

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[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 152 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I like how every company is pushing to replace programmers with AI yet it can't even do the job of a receptionist.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 87 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The only thing I love more than Vibes Coding is Vibes Management.

You get a meeting! You get a meeting! Everyone! Gets! A! Meeting!!!

[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 months ago

Vibes Management

So just management.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Techbros love nothing more than reinventing things that exist. In this case, middle management/project managers

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 points 4 months ago

Honestly probably about half the middle manager/project managers I've had to deal with could be replaced by AI. That's not to say AI is good, they just really sucked at their job.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It looks like you're organizing a meeting, would you like with that?

Yes / No

[–] proper@lemmy.world 45 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think you a word there

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It is a good joke but you missed the chance to call back to one of the better gags from Space Quest 3 by writing "Yes / Yes"

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I started getting emails about meetings I'm invited to but never show up to, which was kinda helpful. Except it was just the first few bullet points, you had to click for the full meeting notes

So one day I did, and it somehow grabbed my info from Microsoft, created an account, and invited itself to the meeting. All without showing me the summary, because I didn't really want to set up an account

Now there's two agents listening to the weekly meeting.

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 points 4 months ago

agent Smith and agent Smith

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

this is why I have literal garbage email addresses for companies to have. do whatever, I'm not reading anything you send me, and I assume everything a company does is a lie. schedule me for whatever...I won't go.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately this was added to the gamescom b2b meeting platform, used by actual game developers and publishers to organise actual meetings with each other at the event. It’s not a throwaway marketing email to be sent straight to junk; it affected everyone using the system for genuine business purposes.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is not "ai", this is "random dice roll"

[–] call_me_xale@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 months ago

There's a difference?