This is basically completely unrelated to CoD... but... Halo Infinite released some Juneteenth (a holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the US/ themed cosmetics a year or two back. The color scheme for armor was named 'Bonobo'... which is a monkey. Oops. ... MegaCorps are not your friend, they're just doing performative marketing.

Isn’t that vaguely what the villain of ready player one *does*?

Can I key off of this Gen AI disclosure like a tag, and auto hide any games that mention it?

I mean, Activision could just lie. I wouldn't put it past them. And if they get found out blame it on some fall guy.

I think if he really wants that plan to shake out he needs to transition ownership while he's alive. Just dumping it on them with no discussion, no cultural adjustment and no preparation time will cause a lot of problems.

Gonna get bought by Pepsi and you'll need to drink the Mt dew verification can to launch it every time

I don't see why this stuff even matters. Like say they fully AI generate a loading screen for their game, and therefore they don't have copyright on it. That doesn't stop them from selling the game, it would only stop them from suing someone copying that specific part of the game for their own purposes. But such a person would have no way of knowing whether the image was fully AI generated or not, so even though in actuality they couldn't be sued successfully, they will still be taking the risk. So why would a company like Activision even give a shit?

hey, if Gabe gets a navy out of it...

This sounds like something steam would be willing to do. I have no idea if it is, but adding this feature ALONE will ward off a good bit of it, I'd think. I was kinda meh about CoD. I stopped after BO2, haven't had any of them installed or played since it was dead. I didn't mind its continued existence, but I wasn't the target anymore. But now I would guide a predator middle right on their headquarters and feel no guilt.

Fucking 343. That's so on-brand it hurts.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by why this stuff matters, but the stuff that you'd be generating with AI for a game wouldn't be a loading screen or something - it would be assets. Character models, weapons, buildings, textures, voices, that's the kind of stuff that companies want to generate with AI. Right now, you can buy stock assets to use, and that's where all the garbage asset flips come from, but companies want to replace employees with software that makes their own assets for them for cheap. Replace the people who make games with software that spits out gacha products. But if they aren't protected under copyright, then any asset flipper can use your main character - taking the model right from your AAA game - and throw it into their 99-cent asset flip scam, and you can't do anything about it. I believe Steam has the policy on AI that they do both because of public opinion about the use of AI (and the way it's being used to steal from creators) and because AI generated games tend to fall into the same category of outright scams that NFT games do, and games containing NFTs are straight up banned from Steam.

Probably just fire 1000 employees

> But if they aren’t protected under copyright, then any asset flipper can use your main character - taking the model right from your AAA game - and throw it into their 99-cent asset flip scam, and you can’t do anything about it. They could send a DMCA claim and Steam would probably just take it down right? Again, really hard to prove it was 100% AI, and in the case of a full usable 3d character model, with current technology it definitely was not. I guess what I mean by "why it matters" is, it doesn't seem like it would practically make any difference to how things will go or what will happen. When it gets to be possible to just about fully autogenerate games, yeah then they might have a reason to wish they could have more copyright. >I believe Steam has the policy on AI that they do both because of public opinion about the use of AI (and the way it’s being used to steal from creators) and because AI generated games tend to fall into the same category of outright scams that NFT games do, and games containing NFTs are straight up banned from Steam. Games using AI used to be banned from Steam, but they changed it to allow them. Requiring tags seems like a nice compromise.

And this is why we shouldn’t rely on steam to be the one and only saviour. GoG and pirating is needing so we can make sure we can enjoy our games in the future.

Yes but he doesn't end up getting it in the movie. That's the part where i don't think it's real.

Gog keeps hitting me with admin access requests when I'm not even doing anything on it. Repeatedly. Until I kill the task. Not a fan.

Because of the DRM free nature of GOG, you do not have to use their GOG Galaxy client. You could use a different client (like Heroic) or you could just download the games straight from the GOG website.

The problem with gog, is that it's owned by CD project red...and they are publicly traded