A gaming executive's use of ChatGPT to draft the legal language canceling a promised employee bonus was not an isolated misuse — it was a public demonstration of a capability the industry had quietly operationalized. The post framing it as "another AI success story" [3] traveled precisely because the irony was load-bearing: the same tools being sold as productivity multipliers were being used to make broken promises sound procedurally sound. What made this legible as a pattern rather than an incident was everything it landed next to — Altman's public…