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. They could (and I think do) have a system for developers to claim that a game has stolen its work and request for it to be taken down.

I agree with this. Something like community notes on other social media might help on identification and alerting other users, but making sure that’s not gamed by bots and the like is a separate issue.

Ah, so not the “first two” as in bullet points 1 and 2 in my list.

So, a few things here:

1. Some things are covered by trademark. This can vary by jurisdiction
2. Some things are covered by copyright. Also, this varies by jurisdiction
3. Properly going through all the paperwork first is the safest, requires time and money, only applies in relevant jurisdictions, and requires time and effort again to enforce for only what it covers.
4. Assuming the creator has the time and effort to go through 3 (if not, some stuff is arguably prior art but requires more time and money to prove), they have to be aware that anyone has created a clone of their work that would, at least in that jurisdiction, infringe.
5. After they have found it, they need to contact valve and whomever else.
6. If they’re not happy stopping there, then there’s the whole legal process (costing more time and money)

Edit: this is also not even the exhaustive version of the list.

In what world would adding a UI filter to hide games that use AI would it be illegal? Cite a law. Explain why all the other filters are not?

I used to self-host email way back in the day. Spam filtering apparently is more of an issue. As of right now, whether or not I have a job after January is very much unknown so no spending for me for now.

I don’t use AWS which is where Amazon makes most of their money. I order from them a couple of times a year for stuff I can’t otherwise find. I don’t use anything by meta at all.

MS Windows are another matter, but I’m not giving them money at least. I have software that is flakey to unavailable on Linux and breaks on any update. I work two jobs so not a lot of time to mess with it.

Google is the hardest one, but they also don’t get a ton of money from me and I plan on avoiding them for my next phone if possible (though everything is terrible that works with Felica which I need to be able to function in Japan). I was going to move my mail to Proton and start there, but Proton has made a lot of decisions that pushes me away from that.

Some needle-in-a-haystack game came out and got cloned to death is what I’m seeing in the news. People can’t differentiate the original one vs the clones and it’s hurt sales. Some companies are stopping open betas and other things as well to avoid it being cloned before they go to full release.

So many companies had better get broken up for anti-compete when the dems take power. They won’t, but I can dream.

1. Require AI tool disclosure
2. Enforce that. Spot check.
3. Give us a filter to show/hide AI-flagged items

For cloning, I’m not sure of the best solution. Allowing the owner and users to report it is nice. But what happens when people are coincidentally working on a very similar game and release around the same time, even without knowledge of each other?

I get the appeal, especially as I get older and my vision isn’t as good. Having a screen that can be bigger as needed helps in a number of ways. That said, no way I’d buy one because I don’t see how they survive in the long term.

$200 […] almost nothing if you compare it to a programmer’s salary

This is going to depend wildly on where in the world you are (for salaries) as well as currency conversion. My AI budget is zero since I don’t care for it, but I don’t think anyone on my team has that high of a monthly, let alone weekly, budget.

It being open source doesn’t necessarily improve anything for me. I’m a software engineer and could go through the code, but it’s not like I know everything about everything nor am I specialized in security. But at that point… Why? Even if the data somehow doesn’t leave my device (which I still doubt by default because vulnerabilities are being discovered all the time) why is that worth the effort or the risk?

I didn’t have an always-on internet connection until sometime in my 20s. I can live without it.

If the fediverse starts requiring ID to post, I won’t post. I already don’t use FB, Insta snap, TikTok, or whatever the hell else there is these days.