- An employee used a very bad image generated by AI to announce works of graphic designers in Xbox
- The image shows a woman who writes a code that somehow appears on the back of a computer monitor, among other problems
- The announcement is especially uncomfortable since Microsoft recently completed fire more than 9,000 people.
A publication on LinkedIn that seeks graphic designers for Xbox is turning viral for the irony of terrible graphics generated by AI. The main development of Xbox Graphics development, Mike Matsel, shared a publication that announced the roles, accompanied by what at first glance seems to be an innocuous cartoon of a woman in a code of typing of work station. Except that the code is on the back of its monitor, and that is only the beginning of the image problems.
The fact that Microsoft concluded the last of several rounds of layoffs, affecting a total of more than 9,000 people, including many in the Xbox division, only a few weeks ago, it makes it even more uncomfortable.
The more examines the image, the more obvious it becomes that it was (bad) produced with AI. The computer is not connected to anything, the desk fades into nothing, and the shadows make no sense. In addition, would Microsoft want a graphic of someone who clearly uses Apple headphones? Not to mention the fact that, in 2025, it is very unlikely to see someone with the headphones with iPhone cable almost 20 years ago.
The image at least sells the idea that Microsoft desperately needs graphic designers, or at least people who know when the graphics are very wrong. The dozens of comments in the publication emphasize how annoying many people find the publication. Many are from developers and graphic designers who could otherwise be interested in positions.
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The fact that this was not a bad image, but undermines the full point of the work that is announced, is really amazing. It is like delivering brochures for a bakery that uses an art clip of a melted candle with “bread” written on the attached label.
It is so strangely bad that more than a few commentators wondered if it was on purpose. It can be a way of attracting attention to open positions, or, however unlikely, however unlikely, a malicious compliance form of someone instructed to use AI to announce open jobs after their colleagues in those positions were allowed to go recently. Or maybe it was the most acute satire ever seen in LinkedIn.
Those are very unlikely theories, but it is revealing that they are not totally impossible. An advertisement that symbolizes everything that people are concerned, especially with respect to the very artistic works that are announced, would be too shameless to use in a joke. Even so, apparently, that is just reality now.
The fact that Microsoft is currently investing billions of dollars in AI only adds to the dissonant reaction. Even if it was not formally approved by Microsoft, it still has its Xbox logo. On the other hand, even high executives can facilitate discussion and use of AI.
Last week, Xbox Game Studios Executive Producer Publishing Matt Turnbull suggested that recently allowed people could resort to AI chatbots to help overcome their emotional anguish and find new jobs. He demolished the essay encouraging former employees to use AI tools to find work and for “emotional clarity”, eventually, but this graphic disaster remains visible to the public, instead of the code that is hidden at the back of the monitor.
