Steam is a last bastion of integrity. Given the present timeline, it will probably be bought out by EA.
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
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.
He should give it to the employees collectively.
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.
Ready player one.
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.
Isn’t that vaguely what the villain of ready player one does?
Yes but he doesn’t end up getting it in the movie. That’s the part where i don’t think it’s real.
And this is why we shouldn’t rely on steam to be the one and only saviour. GoG and pirating is needed so we can make sure we can enjoy our games in the future.
The problem with gog, is that it’s owned by CD project red…and they are publicly traded
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.
Gonna get bought by Pepsi and you’ll need to drink the Mt dew verification can to launch it every time
hey, if Gabe gets a navy out of it…
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.
Also: EA cannot afford Valve.
even when used to assist human creativity
That’s a bit harsh. AI can be a great tool for assisting creativity.
finished by a human to be covered under copyright
That’s so much worse, wtf? airbrushed slop is fine but using it as inspiration, which good luck proving that, isn’t?
This whole AI thing is fucking cooked.
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’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.
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.
llmao
Large Language Model Ass Off?
Just enjoy the acropun and scram punk
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.
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’ somewhere in the filename or metadata… which is a monkey.
Oops.
https://kotaku.com/halo-infinite-juneteenth-bonobo-freedom-emblem-nameplat-1849065291
… MegaCorps are not your friend, they’re just doing performative marketing.
Can I key off of this Gen AI disclosure like a tag, and auto hide any games that mention 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.
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.
Probably just fire 1000 employees
