2026-10-14 15:27 UTC
The only way I can see the industry of intellectual property - and hence all large-budget commercial games - surviving is if laws change to regard the efforts of AI analysis as breaching some of the established DMCA laws.
I’m sure we often regard those laws as horrendous, though I sometimes wonder if people would agree if they saw Epic Games publish “Meincraft” 3 days after Minecraft gets its first major news article, and leave Notch in the dust.
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@popcar2@piefed.ca 2026-10-14 15:38
Games already have IP laws for their assets and patents, but the code is something we can’t really enforce. If someone reverse engineered Minecraft and released it with new graphics and trademarks, how are they going to prove this game is just a copy of Minecraft and not an original block game? Obviously if it’s too similar they’d rule against it but AI is really good at shuffling code and changing up minor things to make it legally distinct.