Steam is a last bastion of integrity. Given the present timeline, it will probably be bought out by EA.

I had been playing some Warzone recently because I hate myself, and I had thought some of the cards and banners seemed fucked up, but most of them also look hand drawn (such as the Black History Month loading screen) so I assumed maybe it was just the style, but now I can't help but think they're just AI generated.

Gabe has stated several times that as long as he is running things he will never go public and let it get ruined like that. Once he's gone though I suspect steam will sell for 18 quintillion dollars to Microsoft or something. It'll probably go to shit immediately afterwards.

Really hoping (He probably does) he has a succession plan in place to prevent that when he's gone

It’s okay, the author of the article didn’t actually read (or understand) the Copyright Office’s recommendations. They are: > Based on an analysis of copyright law and policy, informed by the many thoughtful comments in response to our NOI, the Office makes the following conclusions and recommendations: > • Questions of copyrightability and AI can be resolved pursuant to existing law, without the need for legislative change. > • The use of AI tools to assist rather than stand in for human creativity does not affect the availability of copyright protection for the output. > • Copyright protects the original expression in a work created by a human author, even if the work also includes AI-generated material. > • Copyright does not extend to purely AI-generated material, or material where there is insufficient human control over the expressive elements. > • Whether human contributions to AI-generated outputs are sufficient to constitute authorship must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis. > • Based on the functioning of current generally available technology, prompts do not alone provide sufficient control. > • Human authors are entitled to copyright in their works of authorship that are perceptible in AI-generated outputs, as well as the creative selection, coordination, or arrangement of material in the outputs, or creative modifications of the outputs. > • The case has not been made for additional copyright or sui generis protection for AI- generated content. Pretty much everything the article’s author stated is contradicted by the above.

I vaguely recall hearing that his son had no interest in running the company but that was also years ago. Hopefully whoever is set to take over when he goes shares his exact same views on keeping the company private. Only time will tell.

I don't think Gabe has any interest in that. He's so filthy rich, at this point everything is just a hobby paid from change he found under a couch cushion.

i'm not familiar with windowscentral.com. what's the over-under on the article being AI slop too?

It doesn’t read like AI to me, but their takeaways about copyright made me think the author had read an AI summary rather than the actual source material.

Ready player one.

>It doesn’t read like AI to me, i agree at first glance, but being confidently incorrect (especially getting the source material correct but drawing a dead wrong conclusion) *is* sort of a hallmark of the model. a couple years ago i was pretty good at spotting AI work but it does get harder as time goes on.

It would be great but we all know that IRL it wouldn't work and elon would just pay the best player to win it for him.

He should give it to the employees collectively.

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?