“You can’t put it on the internet anywhere in the world because we own the rights in one country” is some deranged bullshit.

If people post lies about trademark rights multiple places, they should be responded to multiple places.

GPL doesn’t give you any rights to trademarks.

I’m sure they use the reliability of your inputs for known images to determine whether to use your input to train unknown images.

It’s all good.

I’ll just call it a deepfake and get on with my life.

There is no “enough”. Any modification at all takes their permission to use their trademark.

Most allow you to do so within reasonable guidelines, but that only gives you the benefit of the doubt if it’s ambiguous. As soon as they tell you that you don’t have permission to use their trademark on your altered version, you can’t use it.

No, they can’t, because no, it isn’t. That’s what trademarks are for. You can’t use a trademarked name to refer to your competing product.

Open source projects are generally permissive in terms of people repackaging their code for distribution for different platforms within reasonable guidelines, but even that is a sufficient change that they aren’t obligated to allow their trademarks to be used that way.

It is no longer Wordpress once it’s modified. That’s what trademark is for.

They explicitly call their engine Wordpress more than once in those examples. You cannot do that.

They’re very obviously using the trademark in a manner that implies endorsement.

That is absolutely trademark infringement.

Yeah, open source licenses don’t entitle you to use trademarks.

This looks pretty bad to me.

Only in browser. It’s not a properly functioning app.

It doesn’t really matter whether it’s LLMs. There are limits to the value of creating an increasing amount of new hardware to do any particular math, but once you have the hardware it’s pretty easy to find applications for the electricity to pay for itself.

There are countless spaces that will benefit from as much math as we can give them for a long time.

At least with the 360 you’re sure which one you’re talking about.

It’s like how they made the Xbox, then the Xbox one, then the Xbox one X, then the Xbox series X. (Yeah there were other options between/simultaneous, but this sequence is a nice clean illustration.)

Except it has the same outcome on every other platform it’s on, for the exact same reasons.

You realize they still sell many, many copies on all the platforms that aren’t PC and don’t have meaningful mod availability?

Skyrim isn’t selling a bunch of copies on Switch for $30 on sale because of PC mods it can’t use.

It doesn’t resemble plagiarism in any way.

They are fully entitled to imitate the art style.

I can’t find any list of what they actually released in 2024.

But dredge and blasphemous 2 are still pretty recent that they explicitly mention as back catalogue that make sense to be doing OK.

It’s a collection of games you pick from a menu. The premise is that they’re all from the same studio back then, but they’re mostly standalone.

I’ve only tried a couple so far (the first couple) and they feel pretty basic. I guess if the theory is that they’re progression in their development over time the more compelling stuff would be later? Regardless, I wasn’t expecting 50 masterpieces, and they’ve made a point of communicating that they won’t all be huge and heavily featured.

I’d definitely be interested in suggestions of ones that stand out though.

Edit: Mortol is the first one I can really see spending some time trying to master. It’s a platformer where you have finite lives and need to kill yourself one of three ways to make a path forward for the next guy. I’m going on to new ones for now, but I like it.

Most of the stuff people think are RCS aren’t though. They’re proprietary extensions to RCS that only work on Google’s text message apps, transmitted through Google’s servers, with RCS junk as fallback for other services.

It’s not actually meaningfully different than Apple doing iMessage with fallback to RCS now.

Intercommunication is still going to be bad because the standard that carriers support isn’t where all the features are.