So they think Steam Deck players are incapable of cheating why? I guess they're thinking "Well it's like a console, right? So users can't do anything" not realizing a Steam Deck is also a real computer. Or they know different, but they're mainly doing anti-cheat for the investors and they're sure that's what the investors will think.

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When someone invents a whole new thing to do, I don't think the question "Is it illegal under current law?" is meaningful. Take cloning--ethicists and policymakers have been thinking hard about whether and under what circumstances human cloning should be legal. Pre-existing law wasn't the issue, the question is what laws should be written to cover it. Luckily they've had a good deal of lead time on cloning, so by the time it becomes a thing the laws will by and large be in place, or in places where they aren't they can use places where they are as a model.

Internet-scraping generative "AI" came on the scene rather quickly, before anyone had had time to do that kind of deliberation and lawmaking around it, and companies are taking advantage of that to say "Well, there's no existing law that really covers this not-previously-existing thing, so we can do it!" Well, maybe they can get away with it, but it's still a bankrupt position ethically to say it's OK because no law.

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I can't help but feel that the enemies there aren't getting a lot of due process.

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I sometimes wonder what we would have lost if copyright and related "intellectual property" was always as lengthy, strong, and ruthlessly enforced as it is now. All the Cthulhu ecosystem wouldn't exist. All the fantasy games with orcs and halflings would have existed in some form, but for better or worse that form would not have been nearly as Tolkien-y.

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@RedTea Of course! AI and Blockchain . . . I'm sure they'd have synergy!

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Ah, yes, my dream of being paid terribly to annoy people. I don't think this is a simulator I'm likely to go for.

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I also wonder about the politics. Apparently the US government (if you can call it that these days) has been threatening to ban Chinese games. No, really. Will they do anything about it? Who knows? But I can imagine if I'm a Chinese company and I have the option to pull my operation in the US in an orderly way where I get all the data transferred over and stuff, I might go for it just to avoid some future scenario where it gets shut down by edict and things are not so controlled.

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I'm intrigued.

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Dangerous times. Here's hoping we all manage to stand up when it's needed.

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(Prince Regent from Black Adder voice) Well, Hurrah!

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