Department of AI CasualtiesForm WGK-86 / Rev. 2026

Incident Report

What got killed by AI today — daily case file

Case #20260620● Active investigation

Filed: 2026-06-20Status: DeceasedCause: AI-induced obsolescence

Unity Muse AI Replaces Handmade Art in Game Development

Victim

Handmade art (for video games)

⚰ Pronounced dead

Suspect

Unity Muse (Unity's inhouse Gen AI model)

⚖ At large

Investigator's notes

Crisalu Games used Unity Muse, an inhouse Gen AI model from Unity, to retouch handmade art for their game 'Goblin Cleanup'. The AI model has since been updated, and the game's art has been replaced, indicating a shift away from AI-assisted or AI-generated assets in this context.

Evidence log

01.
Goblin Cleanup Crisalu Games. NO disclosure, handmade art retouched by Unity Muse. Unity Muse was essentially Unity's inhouse Gen AI model, which has since been replaced with a larger model and takes
Source: bluesky · Witness count: 93

Lead investigator

Det. G. Flash-Lite

Filed · Sealed

Cold case archive

#20260619
AI didn't kill the academic essay, educators say
Academic essay vs. AI
- [bluesky]Don’t let people tell you AI killed the academic essay. We ran a structured essay process in class this year, with successive problem finding, literature search, multiple drafting, and peer review ses
#20260618
AI Proliferation May Be Killing Self-Help and Non-Fiction Books
Self-help and non-fiction books vs. AI proliferation
- [bluesky]AIの普及は自己啓発本を駆逐してしまったのか？AI時代に作家はどうすればいいのか？ https://gigazine.net/news/20260617-ai-killed-self-help-nonfiction-book/
- [bluesky]AIの普及は自己啓発本を駆逐してしまったのか？AI時代に作家はどうすればいいのか？ https://gigazine.net/news/20260617-ai-killed-self-help-nonfiction-book/
#20260617
AI drones kill soldiers in first autonomous combat engagement
Soldiers on the battlefield vs. Fully autonomous AI drones
- [bluesky]🇺🇦🐝 Fully autonomous drones with no human oversight have killed soldiers on the battlefield for the first time. This is according to a senior figure in Ukrainian defence industry, - New Scientist
- [bluesky]🇺🇦🐝 Fully autonomous drones with no human oversight have killed soldiers on the battlefield for the first time. This is according to a senior figure in Ukrainian defence industry, - New Scientist
#20260616
AI Overviews killing SEO and website traffic
SEO and website traffic vs. AI Overviews / AI search
- [bluesky]ICYMI: AI Overviews killed overfishing.org - and it's not alone #AI #Overfishing #DigitalMarketing #SEO #ContentCreation
- [bluesky]ICYMI: AI Overviews killed overfishing.org - and it's not alone #AI #Overfishing #DigitalMarketing #SEO #ContentCreation
- [bluesky]With AI “search” shifting attention away from websites and ads, it seems it was only a matter of time before brands started trying to manipulate LLM outputs to make up for that loss in ad views. Looks
#20260615
AI Search Killed Keyword SEO
Keyword SEO vs. AI search
- [bluesky]The mood among engineers is shifting: we're done pretending you can vibe-code and walk away. This week — Claude Code vs Antigravity vs Codex evaluated, "Loop Engineering," and six months of data on h
#20260614
AI Now Kills How-To Nonfiction
How-To Nonfiction vs. AI
- [hn]Has AI Killed How-To Nonfiction?
- [hn]Has AI Killed How-To Nonfiction?
#20260613
AI replaces British Gas workers, union says
British Gas jobs vs. AI
- [bluesky]Union says workers ‘being replaced by AI’ as British Gas cuts 500 jobs. www.itv.com/news/2026-06...
#20260612
Game Dev Caught Using AI Art; Promises Human Art 'Soon'
AI-generated assets in games vs. AI
- [bluesky]Players will not tolerate AI usage. They especially will not tolerate it being hidden. It destroys trust twice over. 1666: Amsterdam could have done really well. This has killed momentum. And you ca
- [bluesky]🎮 **1666: Amsterdam Developer Gets Caught, Fesses Up To Using AI Assets** Panache Digital Games say the genAI shite will be replaced by human art 'soon' 📰 Source: Kotaku 🔗 Link: https://kotaku.co
- [bluesky]I enjoyed the prologue, and I was looking forward to playing the game when it came out, but this has killed all the hype for me. I’m sick of developers trying to sneak AI slop into games, and worse, t
- [bluesky]🎶 OVERVIEWS KILLED THE INDY BLOG STAR… 🎶 For all the endless speculation about how AI is going to decimate the job market: hey, it already did! Specifically: the independent writers or online bu
- [bluesky]its kind of an unwinnable question. is the AI asset simply placeholder art, is it purely cosmetic? if so, then what purpose does it server that programmer art doesn't? and if it creates scripts and is
#20260611
AI Drones Kill Russian Soldiers in Ukraine
Russian soldiers vs. AI-controlled drones
- [bluesky]AI drones with no humans in the loop have killed Russian soldiers. “We just launch it and we know everything will be dead – everything that will be found there in this particular area will be dead,”
- [bluesky]Um, we sure this is the best route??? "The one-off test involved 10 AI-controlled “Terminator” drones on the front line of the Ukraine war. Russian soldiers were killed." www.newscientist.com/articl
- [bluesky]Exclusive: AI has killed humans. For years we've had rumours, unconfirmed reports, suggestions... Now we know that AI-controlled drones with no human oversight have killed humans on the battlefield.
- [bluesky]For those who aren't reading the fine print Microsoft makes money selling people office and azure. When AI replaces all those people, he wants to sell AI agents accessing tools built for people lmao I
#20260610
AI-Generated Legal Cases Lead to Judges Throwing Out Entire Lawsuits
Lawyers citing non-existent cases vs. AI
- [hn]Judge kills entire case when both lawyers submit AI filings
- [hn]Watch These Judges Rip into Lawyers for Citing Cases That Don't Exist
#20260609
Concept Artists Lose Jobs as Generative AI Takes Over Game Asset Creation
Concept Artist vs. Generative AI
- [bluesky]"Examples" are called "concepts". Concept Artist is (was) a real job that is being/has been replaced by Gen AI. Giving a company a pass because they still have *some* artists working on the game is n
- [bluesky]it's honestly crazy thinking about how generative ai has essentially killed any hope of becoming an established freelance artist
- [bluesky]Whenever I see businesses use gen AI for shit I cry a lil because my maternal grandfather, the same man who not only killed nazis in WWII, was a commercial graphic artist as his actual career....and o
- [bluesky]I remembered! I went through all this AI greif earlier in the week before Crazy Taxi was ever announced. I'm a big Tomb Raider fan, and a big fan of Flying Wild Hog, the devs behind the new game. But
- [bluesky]God I was really enjoying The Alters and seeing it use AI killed it for me
#20260608
Crazy Taxi hype killed by Generative AI in new game
Crazy Taxi game series vs. Generative AI
- [bluesky]honestly disappointed that new crazy taxi uses Ai lol.. i liked the game from gamecube era rip :(
- [bluesky]The first I heard of it was from a post about it using Gen AI, my hype was killed before it even was born
- [bluesky]Hope the Gen AI backlash towards Sega is big enough so they decide to can that for future projects. RIP new Crazy Taxi.
- [bluesky]Dear SEGA, No one wants Generative AI in their games. I was ready to pre-order Crazy Taxi as soon as I heard the iconic soundtrack, but you killed that for me and for many people. If you need to take
- [bluesky]There's goes the ultra hype of Crazy Taxi RIP GAME NO ONE WILL BUY OR PRE-ORDER CRAZY TAXI DUE TO AI! IT'S THAT SIMPLE AND EASY! Plus Hideo Kojima is not interested in AI anymore so if he can move
#20260607
Meta's AI support bot replaced human help, leading to Instagram account takeovers
Human customer support for Meta/Instagram accounts vs. Meta's AI support bot
- [bluesky]youtube.com/watch?v=PzcY... Meta’s AI support bot let hackers take over valuable Instagram accounts by using a VPN & asking the bot to attach a new email addr. The company replaced human support w/AI
#20260606
40,000 public service jobs reportedly targeted for AI replacement
Public service jobs vs. AI
- [bluesky]The number I've seen repeatedly cited is 40,000 public service jobs to be replaced with AI. It's telling that, when asked by the Tyee for details about all those promised new jobs from Carney's AI pl
#20260605
Scorsese's AI storyboards spark debate on artist replacement
storyboarding vs. AI
- [bluesky]Was reading a dialogue on the Scorsese AI news: AI bro: Scorsese used AI for storyboards, but he usually does his own storyboards, so he didn't replace anyone's job with AI! Other guy: So instead of
#20260604
Tomb Raider Devs Refine, Replace AI Assets, Sparking Debate
AI-assisted assets in game development vs. Generative AI
- [bluesky]'Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis' Ai disclaimer. "Any Al-assisted assets were either replaced or refined by humans in order to maintain the creative and artistic vision of the development team." [1/
- [bluesky]Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis used generative AI at one point, but its devs say all AI assets have been "replaced or refined by humans." gameinformer.com/opinion/2026...
- [bluesky]Pretty deflating to see the Tomb Raider remake admit it's used AI during development. Yes, they say it was only used during the early stages and any AI assets have since been "replaced or refined by h
- [bluesky]The dev's disclosure on Steam says "Any AI-assisted assets were either replaced or refined by humans in order to maintain the creative and artistic vision of the development team." My plan to purcha
- [bluesky]“AI assets were replaced by humans to maintain the artistic vision of the team” if you use AI to begin with, there is no artistic vision why do you need AI for a remake (or reimagining or whatever) o
#20260603
Trump administration scraps AI regulation executive order
AI regulation executive order vs. Donald Trump
- [bluesky]Donald Trump killed an executive order to regulate AI. Now, administration officials and AI executives are trying to figure out if there’s anything left to piece back together.
- [bluesky]Donald Trump killed an executive order to regulate AI. Now, administration officials and AI executives are trying to figure out if there’s anything left to piece back together. read @hugolowell.bsky.
- [bluesky]📰 **The Trump Administration Is at War With Itself Over AI Regulation** Donald Trump killed an executive order to regulate AI. Now, administration officials and AI executives are trying to figure ou
- [bluesky]#NewHampshire #Republicans in both legislative chambers killed several of their own bills after failing to agree on compromises, including measures on #guns in #colleges, kratom regulation, AI oversig
#20260602
AI (Claude) replaces human for DevOps and feature development
DevOps/infra and feature dev work vs. Claude
- [hn]My client is replacing me with Claude for all DevOps/infra and most feature dev
#20260601
AI is eliminating most hiring, except for sales roles
Sales jobs vs. AI
- [bluesky]Salesforce's CEO just said the quiet part loud: "Almost no one is being hired right now. Except in sales." AI killed the rest. If your role is "ship work an AI can do," your job description just ch
#20260531
Google Search killed by Google AI
Google Search vs. Google AI
- [bluesky]Can't believe I lived to see the begging, rise, fall, and end of Google I did not Ask Jeeves in grade school just to be fed nonsense by Google AI in middle age RIP
- [bluesky]Google replaced its existing voice recognition software with AI so I went from everything working just fine to interactions like "Hey Google, play A Therapy for Pain by Fear Factory" "I'm sorry but I
- [bluesky]Pretty sure the phrase "google it" will be made obsolete by AI prompts soon enough
#20260530
AI threatens to kill PhD programs by replacing TAs
PhD programs vs. AI replacing Teaching Assistants (TAs)
- [bluesky]to say the quiet part out loud: most PhD programs fund grad students with a mix of fellowships and teaching, but mostly through teaching. if TAs are replaced by AI, most PhD programs will cease to exi
#20260529
Company Claims AI Has Replaced Zendesk
Zendesk vs. AI
- [hn]We replaced Zendesk
#20260528
Fitbit App Replaced by AI-Driven Google Health, Users Upset
Fitbit app vs. Google Health (AI-driven)
- [bluesky]The Fitbit app has been replaced by Google Health and it’s terrible. I’m reminded of Uber’s COO talking about how their engineers are writing more code with AI but it isn’t translating to business o
- [bluesky]There is zero reason for Google to have killed the Fitbit app and replaced it with this garbage other than it wanted to get more people using AI. It could have released the Health app and had it com
#20260527
AI kills Stack Overflow's value as a Q&A platform
Stack Overflow vs. AI-generated answers
- [hn]Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
- [hn]AI Killed Stack Overflow (and why that sucks)
#20260526
Google Search goes full AI, signaling the end of traditional search
Google Search vs. AI
- [bluesky]Just a heads up that Google search is going full AI tomorrow. Alternatives exist. DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Startpage. Hell, even Bing. But RIP Google search. We don't want this.
#20260525
NZ Govt AI Replaces Public Servants, Sends Money Out of Country
New Zealand public servants vs. AI
- [bluesky]‘When the government replaces a New Zealand public servant with AI, what really happens is this: money that used to be paid to someone living in Wellington, Lower Hutt or Palmerston North gets paid in
#20260524
AI Recreates Voices of Dead Pilots from Public Records
dead pilots' voices vs. AI voice reconstruction
- [bluesky]The NTSB temporarily pulled its docket system offline after people used AI to recreate the voices of pilots killed in a UPS plane crash last year.
- [hn]AI Is Being Used to Resurrect the Voices of Dead Pilots
- [hn]AI Reconstructed Dead Pilots' Voices from Public NTSB Records
- [bluesky]The Best $10 You’ll Spend at #Disney’s BoardWalk Inn - kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/uk.html#9 People used #AI to recreate the voices of pilots killed - kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/canada.htm... View
#20260523
AI recreates voices of dead pilots, NTSB pulls docket
NTSB pilots' voices vs. AI voice recreation
- [hn]NTSB pulls docket after AI recreates dead pilots' voices
- [bluesky]The US NTSB suspends access to its database of civil transportation accidents after people re-created voices of pilots killed in a 2025 UPS plane crash using AI (Jeremy Hsu/Ars Technica) Main Link |
#20260522
Standard Chartered CEO says AI will replace 'lower-value humans'
Standard Chartered 'lower-value human capital' vs. AI
- [hn]Standard Charter CEO Replaces 8000 "Lower Value Humans" with AI
- [bluesky]The Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Monetary Authority of Singapore have both contacted Standard Chartered, asking the company to clarify CEO Bill Winters’ comments in which some of his “lower-va
#20260521
Google Search is over as AI takes over
Google Search vs. AI
- [bluesky]🪦 RIP Google Search We used to be close but you stopped caring and now you just want our attention and money. As Arianna says, it’s time to “break up with your boyfriend” Boy, bye. https://techcrunc
- [bluesky]Google pivoting to completely just AI slop is so comically awful, the last like decade has been watching every single thing that became a verb because of Computer deciding to rip itself out of culture
- [bluesky]"Google replaces Google search with AI" Oh they are -DESPERATE- desperate
- [bluesky]terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's deci
#20260520
Google Search Killed by AI Chatbot
Google Search vs. AI Chatbot
- [bluesky]google search is being killed to replace it with an ai chatbot this situation is dire
- [bluesky]Cool, so Google killed the biggest thing they were known for, so much it became synonymous with web searching. Are we sure it’s the AI users getting the psychosis and not the peddlers? techcrunch.co
- [bluesky]google killed search to give us AI glasses. cool cool cool
- [bluesky]Who pays for the journalism, the public-service content and the careful explanation of complicated things, when synthesis replaces retrieval? Right now the answer is: nobody. Google’s move is an under
- [bluesky]Once AI replaces search, AI will become the exclusive broker to websites on the internet, the death of the public internet as we know it. AI will decide what information can be found and by who. 570 y
#20260519
Microsoft AI CEO: Automation to replace lawyers, accountants, marketers in 12-18 months
white-collar work (lawyers, accountants, project managers, marketing personnel) vs. AI automation
- [bluesky]"Most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months." Microsoft's AI CEO says the kind of "white-collar work" that lawyers, accountants, project managers, and market
#20260518
AI Overviews and ChatGPT kill online search results
Online search results vs. AI-generated slop
- [bluesky]Everyone said GSA SER was dead. AI Overviews killed clicks. ChatGPT replaced search. Automated link building was finished. They we... Everyone said GSA SER was dead. AI Overviews killed clicks. ChatG
- [bluesky]I don't have a job that can be made obsolete by AI and yet it has already made my life worse. Searching online is a tedious whack-a-mole ordeal of filtering out the AI-generated slop that dominates th
#20260517
Agentic AI replaces entry-level white collar jobs
low-level coders, analysts, and researchers vs. agentic AI
- [bluesky]AI isn’t used for information retrieva at most companies. It’s being deployed to replace low-level coders, analysts, and researchers. A huge portion of lower level white collar jobs is currently being
#20260516
Google AI Overviews kill health coverage articles in search
Health coverage articles in Google Search results vs. Google AI Overviews
- [bluesky]Health coverage is getting killed by Google AI Overviews pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien... by @charlottetobitt.bsky.social "...links to articles supplanted by an AI-written summary 72% of the time
- [hn]Health coverage is getting killed by Google AI Overviews
#20260515
UK Saves Millions by Replacing Palantir with AI in Refugee System
Palantir tech in refugee system vs. AI
- [hn]'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system
#20260514
AI Kills 133-Year-Old Princeton Tradition
A 133-Year-Old Princeton Tradition vs. AI
- [bluesky]How AI Killed a 133-Year-Old Princeton Tradition www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
- [hn]How AI Killed a 133-Year-Old Princeton Tradition
#20260513
AI automation kills manual tweaks, boosting CTR and page views
Manual tweaks in content production vs. AI automation
- [bluesky]Stop blaming AI for “low‑quality content.” In 6 months of pure automation, our CTR rose 35%, page views 21%. The only bottleneck was manual tweaks that killed consistency. Embrace algorithm‑curated qu
- [bluesky]Stop blaming AI for “low‑quality content.” In 6 months of pure automation, our CTR rose 35%, page views 21%. The only bottleneck was manual tweaks that killed consistency. Embrace algorithm‑curated qu
- [bluesky]Stop blaming AI for “low‑quality content.” In 6 months of pure automation, our CTR rose 35%, page views 21%. The only bottleneck was manual tweaks that killed consistency. Embrace algorithm‑curated qu
- [bluesky]Stop blaming AI for “low‑quality content.” In 6 months of pure automation, our CTR rose 35%, page views 21%. The only bottleneck was manual tweaks that killed consistency. Embrace algorithm‑curated qu
- [bluesky]Stop blaming AI for “low‑quality content.” In 6 months of pure automation, our CTR rose 35%, page views 21%. The only bottleneck was manual tweaks that killed consistency. Embrace algorithm‑curated qu
#20260512
Gallup Explores AI-Generated Answers to Replace Human Polls
Presidential approval polling by Gallup vs. AI/LLM-generated answers
- [bluesky]February: Gallup says that due to cost reasons it will no longer do presidential approval polling May: Gallup says it is exploring "digital twin" technology that replaces human respondents with AI/LLM
#20260511
AI's data compression prowess kills large SQLite databases
3 GB SQLite db vs. 10 MB FST binary
- [hn]Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary
- [lobsters]Replacing a 3 GB SQLite database with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary
- [lobsters]Replacing Ctrl-R in Bash without TIOCSTI
#20260510
AI poised to disrupt Workday's enterprise HR SaaS dominance
Workday vs. AI-native HRIS
- [bluesky]a16z did not write "Workday's Last Workday" to bury Workday. They wrote it to signal the largest greenfield opportunity in enterprise SaaS: an AI-native HRIS that replaces the entire stack. $10B reve
- [bluesky]THE FRAMEWORK for substrate optimization: LAYER 1 - HARDWARE: AI designs better chips (AlphaEvolve on TPUs) LAYER 2 - INFRASTRUCTURE: AI optimizes databases (Spanner, caches) LAYER 3 - PLATFORM: AI r
#20260509
AI bypasses CAPTCHAs and IP-based filtering, rendering them obsolete
CAPCTCHAs and IP-based filtering vs. AI
- [bluesky]A lot of the discussion centered on why this is happening now. There is a sense that AI has finally killed CAPTCHAs and IP-based filtering. If a bot can solve puzzles and use residential proxies, some
#20260508
Gen AI Drowns Out Accessibility Tools For Disabled People
legitimate accessibility tools for people with disabilities vs. Generative AI
- [bluesky]-Gen AI is pushing out legitimate accessibility tools for people with disabilities before. Tools that have been in development for decades that have been drowned out or killed by Gen AI faux-geries.
- [bluesky]-much time and memory, and I'm still reconciling the ways in which my brain has changed. Generative AI is not the answer to any of my problems. It has not brought us closer to a better future. It's k
#20260507
FBI Director Accused of Using AI to Rip Off Beastie Boys' "Sabotage"
FBI Director Kash Patel's use of AI to rip off Beastie Boys music video vs. Generative AI for video creation
- [bluesky]Did FBI Director Kash Patel use AI to rip off the Beastie Boys? www.npr.org/2026/05/05/n...
- [bluesky]Love to check the news in 2026 and it's like "Vatican criticizes conversion therapy" and "FBI director uses AI to rip off Beastie Boys music video."
- [bluesky]"A video posted by FBI director KashPatel appears to be using #AI 🤖 to rip off an iconic music video by the #BeastieBoys. The two-minute video about fraud was posted by Patel on Monday. It features
#20260506
AI Claude replaces HR tasks, sparking job replacement fears
HR tasks vs. Claude
- [bluesky]Wife started using Claude to help her with HR tasks. Won't stop taking about how good it is but also how many jobs it replaces. Now, I've been told since the seventies that technology will take people
#20260505
AI replaces spec-driven development with just facts
spec-driven development vs. AI (facts)
- [hn]Show HN: Replacing spec-driven development with just facts