A gaming CEO asked ChatGPT how to avoid paying a $250 million bonus. It didn’t work

When Changhan Kim, CEO of the South Korean gaming company Krafton, decided he needed a way out of a costly acquisition deal, he didn’t call his lawyers—he opened ChatGPT. The result is one of the most striking cautionary tales about AI-assisted decision-making in corporate America, and it ended with a Delaware judge ordering the company reverse everything it had done.

A Delaware judge found Kim used ChatGPT to engineer the removal of Unknown Worlds Entertainment—the indie studio responsible...