Quoting: ExplosiveDiarrheaBillionaires are the enemy.
Yes, even Gabe. Sorry fanboys...

Two things can be true at the same time.

We can (and do) critizise Gabe and Valve for some of their business practices, while also supporting other practices.

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It is pretty sensible take for a distribution platform as the legality of AI-products are not yet properly established. Take for instance the entirely vibe-based decision by QEMU:

"The concern that motivated the policy is unchanged, and it is worth stating precisely: the DCO is about whether the submitter has the legal right to contribute the code, not about "creative expression". The copyright and license status of LLM output remains unsettled, so that question is still open. What has shifted is the balance of risk:

- projects accepting AI-assisted content have not run into serious legal trouble so far, which suggests the probability of the risk materializing is not high;

- other organizations, such as Red Hat[1], have assessed the risk as acceptable -- though a community of individual developers does not have the legal backing of a company, and even an unfounded dispute would be a long-lasting distraction from work on QEMU."

source: QEMU dev list [External Link]

Nothing will really happen if AI generations are shown to indeed not be copyrightable (see: Monkey selfie copyright dispute).

However, if they show that they can be copyrightable and there is some legal mess, with e.g. the training data, making it unclear who owns the copyright, well.. Remember the patent-trolls from a two decades ago? We would likely have a swarm of Copyright trolls mass suing with the goal of settlements. And that would be one heck of a headache to deal with.

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GabeN really does live rent free in Sweeney's mind. 😂

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Quoting: CyborgZetaMy mother died months ago, so I live by myself now.

I'm sorry for your loss, friend.

Enjoy your PS5, you deserve it.

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Quoting: mrdeathjryeah some of them tested with d7vk however indiana jones is emperors tomb* from gog (candidate for test)

*now can work in my case with this registry key:

<SNIP>

save before text as for example indy.reg and after this can import using wine registry editor

😀

I have not played the emperor's tomb actually, I will save this registry file in my folder with other indy-games!

Also help me out, I recognise an icon but can't for the life of me recall what game it is. Second from the bottom, left side, smug green man looking at us. 😅

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Quoting: mrdeathjr​This wine version in my case install mono 11.1
​😀

Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight, orginial Outlaws, Moto Racer, and is that Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine?! 😃

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FNA still delivering good stuff, thanks flibitijibibo et al.!

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Thank you Germany for your continued support! 🥰

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It's starting to get REALLY expensive to compete with the already established tech giants....

And this is still just populism. No-one wants to be seen as "weak on extremists" or be accused of not "wanting to protect the children" (both terms are drenched in deep double speak and dog whistling).

Everyone is trying to kick the can to someone else, it's a lot easier. Facebook wants the kick age validation to governments, politicians want to be seen kicking the can to companies.

Companies should take responsibility, and so should governments. This is neither taking responsibility, and is just a bunch of theater.

Sorry, old man ranting again.
(At least the coffee price is down somewhat!)

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Cartoony witches and cute familiars?

Colour me intrigued. 🐱

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