Yeah. Considering “pro-peace and against violence” is also the fictional justification Russia used to invade Ukraine in the first place, the studio’s statement is especially useless.

The other replies cover the reasons, but these are the factors together:

If you want to separate the art from the artist, you also have to separate the profit from the artist. Otherwise, like it or not, they’re not separate at all.

Market cap has nothing to do with company size, it’s only the total value of the shares which are almost completely unrelated because they’re essentially secondary-market gambling.

Master of Orion predates TI by four years (93 vs 97). Which leads to the other question: was TI inspired by MoO?

It’s not really complicated, it’s just that you’re mixing two issues into one.

It’s funny how these articles bring out a whole bunch of first-time accounts desperate to deficiency-signal and brigade, as though it’s not obvious to everyone else what’s going on and easily disregarded.

PC gaming is Japan is nearly non-existent outside of gaming cafes.

Microsoft is big, but let’s keep that in perspective - it’s twice the size of Sony by employees and revenue. They have just about enough buying power to pay for half of Sony’s assets - far below the full value of Sony, and far, far from “ten times over”.

It’s from Star Trek actually, Starfleet’s General Order 1 prohibiting interference in the natural development of alien civilisations, especially in the case of pre-warp societies.

I don’t think there’s any controversy or deception between the terms AI and machine learning. Of course they’re the same thing. We’re also learning machines, just of a different construction. Our computational power may be more advanced in some respects, but there’s still a logic-driven process taking place.

Where do you think the first art and storytelling came from? What was its “dataset”?

The deceptive element of these submissions is definitely a problem, but I find myself oddly unconcerned were it made clear in a submission that it was written by AI.

You can and should dismiss that thing.

He’s playing a dangerous game. Filing a false DMCA claim, particularly with the goal of harassment, is considered perjury. In New Jersey where this guy practices, that could be up to 4 years in prison (or none, for first time offenders).

Unfortunately, the fool in question is an attorney.

there are already plenty of tips out there for spotting AI-generated imagery that go beyond the obvious, like (as in this image’s case) “counting fingers”

There’s nothing incompatible between Phil’s statement and Microsoft’s statement though. The latter only says that 12 months after being added to GamePass there’s an unstated percent decline in base sales. If there’s an increase in base sales in, for example, the first three months, then Phil’s statement is also true.

https://kotaku.com/ion-fury-studio-apologizes-for-developers-sexist-and-tr-1837382905