We can’t ignore the preservation efforts GOG has done including spending resources themselves on updating and improving games like Alpha Protocol and Dino Crisis
Funny that they were so terrified of sending it in Germany because it would have broken Germany laws about Nazi signs, so they excluded Germany from the email while sending it everywhere else.
I’m willing to bet that email was helped out by AI.
What I suspect happened was they had AI write the email, AI is notoriously emoji happy, and the AI saw Slavic mysticism stuff and entered into a nazi rhetoric informed mode and added those Unicode characters.
LLMs are trained on the internet, that includes the racist nazi parts.
Maybe because AI said it was safer to remove them? It’s not a great defense but basically every company has gone ape shit over AI now. I actually am being actively pushed to use it at work even though I don’t want to.
gog make it pretty hard to like them, like putting AI slop on storefront and the recent email controversy they didn’t really apologise for.
Don’t let perfect become the enemy of good
We can’t ignore the preservation efforts GOG has done including spending resources themselves on updating and improving games like Alpha Protocol and Dino Crisis
If “the good” is dog whistles for fascism, I rather not.
Their casual dismissal of this is one of their many red flags over the years.
Yeaaaah that’s definitely a red flag though.
Fuck man
Wait what? I’ve not heard about this
They sent out an email with Nazi symbols: see https://lemmyverse.link/feddit.uk/post/50278677
I thought they did apologize for it?
The apology was “I’m sorry you such a stupid babies you don’t know that SS rune is used by slavics actually (not true btw, who cares)”
That tone-deaf non-apology was only on reddit, by a new-on-the-job “community specialist”. They did a (slightly) better apology an hour later on twitter and the GOG forum: https://www.gog.com/upload/forum/2026/06/c1cdf9fda39aaa5532ee375b38abb04376c7505d.png
Ok, that’s at least better
Funny that they were so terrified of sending it in Germany because it would have broken Germany laws about Nazi signs, so they excluded Germany from the email while sending it everywhere else.
I’m willing to bet that email was helped out by AI.
What I suspect happened was they had AI write the email, AI is notoriously emoji happy, and the AI saw Slavic mysticism stuff and entered into a nazi rhetoric informed mode and added those Unicode characters.
LLMs are trained on the internet, that includes the racist nazi parts.
And of course nobody bothered looking it over.
The problem with this defence is that they did notice it because they removed it from the German version of the email, they said as such.
I didn’t say it was a defence.
It’s sheer incompetence. Just speculating into how the fuck this happened at all.
Maybe because AI said it was safer to remove them? It’s not a great defense but basically every company has gone ape shit over AI now. I actually am being actively pushed to use it at work even though I don’t want to.
It’s not the first time they used AI for their marketing either. They’ve been caught before.