The Lord of the Rings: Gollum apology was allegedly written using ChatGPT without the developer's input

According to a recent interview with some former Daedlic staffers, the apology released for The Lord of the Rings Gollum earlier this year was written with the AI program ChatGPT.

I didn’t expect to be writing about TLOT: Gollum again this year, what with Daedalic’s development arm being shuttered earlier this year, potentially because of the failure of the game itself. But as spotted by Twitter user Knoebel, a recent interview between former devs at Daedalic and German gaming outlet GameTwo is alleging that the apology released due to just how bad Gollum came out was written with ChatGPT (thanks, VGC).

The video from GamingTwo that spoke with two sources from Daedalic featured an explanation as to why Gollum failed, with one of the main reasons being that the budget was reportedly only 15 million euros. To be clear, this is an incredibly small amount for a AAA game, if you can call Gollum that, but it’s certainly smaller than what you’d expect for a Lord of the Rings title.