Tinybuild is using AI tools to monitor staff and identify "problematic" workers
Tinybuild boss Alex Nichiporchik says the company is using AI to identify toxic workers, which according to the CEO also includes those suffering from burnout.
Outlining how the company utilizes AI in the workplace during a Develop: Brighton talk called "AI in Gamedev: Is My Job Safe," Nichiporchik introduced a section called "AI for HR" and discussed how the tech can be used to comb through employee communications and identify "problematic" workers.
In excerpts from the talk published by Why Now Gaming, Nichiporchik explains how the Hello Neighbor publisher feeds text from Slack messages, automatic transcriptions from Google Meet and Zoom, and task managers used by the company, into ChatGPT to conduct an "I, Me Analysis" that allows Tinybuild to gauge the "probability of the person going to a burnout."
Nichiporchik said the technique, which he claims to have invented, is "bizarrely Black Mirror-y" and involves using ChatGPT to monitor the number of times workers have said "I" or "Me" in meetings and other correspondence.
Why? Because he claims there is a "direct correlation" between how many times somebody uses those words, compared to the amount of words they use overall, and the likelihood of them experiencing burnout at some point in the future.
Notably, Nichiporchik suggests the AI tool can also be used to identify "problematic players on the team" and compare them with the "A-players" by searching for those who talk too much in meetings or who type too much. He calls these employees "time vampires," because they're people who in his view essentially waste time, and notes "once that person is no longer with the company or with the team, the meeting takes 20 minutes and we get fives times more done."
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