Konami is no longer a video games company any more. They lost that title when they kicked Kojima out and decided to fully embrace pachinko games.

Errr, don’t we already have AI-powered welding machines in car factories?

Old, but still relevant:

there was a gap in US music IP law for like 40 years for anything from before the system was nationalized in the 70’s

The system is still shit, especially for music.

The poor already don’t have copyright laws, and the rich continue to have their safeguards. This is already how it is.

What? You think those laws on the books are for you? No. Only the rich get to enforce those copyright laws.

It’s even worse than saying there’s no copyright laws, because the poor think they have them.

Starfield? Try Fallout 76.

Hell, Fallout 4 was still not a great game, but at least it was functional and had a story. As soon as they announced that there was zero NPCs in Fallout 76, I knew that they COMPLETELY lost the plot, and the point of any of their previous RPGs.

Imagine getting sued by Nintendo because you said the word “Nintendon’t”.

Those pussies couldn’t even put out their tag line without having some legal blurb at the bottom.

Oh noes… my registered trademark!

WTF, Germany?

This is a big part of why fair use is in such a bad state right now: no predictability in how courts will rule on it as a defense, plus no way to keep you out of courts in the first place.

That’s not completely true. Fair Use has four declarations that you must pass, so there’s at least some definition to how it would play out in the courts. But, it’s not a definitive rule of law, so yeah it’s not going to keep you out of the courts.

that is technically transformative, but most likely not enough to justify fair use.

Right, but it’s pretty obvious that the transformation for AI is very transformative, and it’s lossy at that. After the training, you can’t just duplicate the image it was trained from, even if it was asked a thousand times.

Echo chambers can’t have bad news in it.

(elon, vance, trump, hegseth, bessent, rfk jr, bondi, mcmahon, gabbard, loeffler, etc)

I am reminded of that quote from Spaceballs: “Evil always wins because good is dumb.”

But, like, is it really true? Isn’t the exact opposite actually true?

Well, yes, but also that’s very illegal.

Will the GOP hold them accountable and start an investigation about it? Fuck no!

> WEAR GOGGLES

But, most of them are just food, because we would never have this uptick in smuggling otherwise.

And we’re signaling border officials to throw away all of that food, as if we didn’t waste enough food in this county.

I’m halfway joking, but marketing does involve various degrees of lying.

Dying is the point. This man wants you to die.

Ad-tech

world free of fraud

Am I missing something here? Marketing IS fraud.