xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@tomie @Lemonid Some Mastodon user was passing it as real. I assumed it was real because of a recent quote from one of the people who worked there.

This is just bullshit. I don't care that much about the whole Ghibli AI filters, but they are really stretching the current copyright system with this. The only thing that Gib Studio could be violating is trademark law by calling it Gib, but everything else is wrong.

1. You cannot copyright or patent an art-style.
2. The AI is only using Studio Ghibli's work as a reference while also using a real life photo to create a drawing. It's like if I took a photo and drew a cartoon version of it in Butch Hartman's style and used Fairly Odd Parents screenshots as references.
3. People are mostly using the tool to share images on social media. They aren't doing anything for commercial purposes. It's no different than people who draw pictures of themselves in the Powerpuff Girls art-style for example.
4. People aren't stupid enough to believe that Studio Ghibli would endorse something because something is drawn in it's artstyle. People have been drawing offensive memes using various works and they almost never harm the reputation of the original creators...unless you are Ben Garrison.

@therem @picofarad
>in support of a fascist agenda
>doesn't give a shit about copyright

Okay let's get into what fascism really is. On the economic side, fascism supports the merger of state and corporate power (i.e the creation of artificial monopolies).

Copyright (along with other forms of "intellectual property") is when the state gives a person or a group exclusive rights to use a certain idea, thus creating an artificial monopoly on said idea.

It seems like copyright itself is inline with the ideas of fascism.

@beardalaxy @icedquinn I wonder if it could be moddable enough along with having online play so that two people would essentially be playing two different games while being connected to one server.

That's one of Sim's creator, Will Wright's ideas when creating the original Sims, back when it was still called Dollhouse. One person could be playing a restaurant simulator, commanding workers in an RTS-style gameplay while another person could be playing a DOOM-like FPS and try to rob the store, all on the same map.

https://yewtu.be/nsxoZXaYJSk?t=4374