Now That The Shoe Is On The Other Foot, Microsoft And Epic... #ai #law #copyright #fairuse #decompilation #gaming #epic #microsoft
Now That The Shoe Is On The Other Foot, Microsoft And Epic Games Suddenly Agree That AI Is Theft
The past four weeks have been something of a wake-up call for the video game industry. You’ve read the headlines, so you know the deal by now: AI advancements spearheaded by Claude Opus 5.5 have turned the world of coding on its axis. Decompilations that used to take months, or even years, are now being pumped out on a daily basis, and publishers can’t keep up with the deluge of vibe-coded browser ports and “native” PC recompilations.
I’ve been covering and researching this over the past month, and there’s one recurring topic that keeps popping up in every comment section I read: karma. For many, this is the video game industry’s “you reap what you sow” moment, proof that the AI tools many publishers have brazenly admitted to using are a double-edged sword.
$10,000 fine for killing over 700 native and endangered protected animals..
$14.28 each.. Other life is 'cheap' when you're a Human..
"The white-walled room packed with magpies, galahs and sulphur-crested cockatoos, foxes and possums is eerily quiet. As a video pans across shelves filled with these and many other species, there is no flapping or squawking or hissing; the animals are frozen and silent.
They are among the more than 700 native animals that were found illegally taxidermied and frozen that were seized from the property of a Victorian antiques store owner last year.
On Tuesday, 74-year-old Glenn Richard Rollo was fined $10,000 by a court after he pleaded guilty to 13 charges, including selling and possessing protected and threatened wildlife and failing to provide treatment to a sick animal."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/22/man-fined-after-700-frozen-and-taxidermied-animals-found-on-victorian-property-ntwnfb#AnimalCruelty#Victoria#Australia#News#AnimalRights#EndangeredSpecies#Law
Two of Blanche’s top aides were instrumental in overseeing the task force’s operations∶ #EmilBove III, who served as the department’s enforcer before leaving for a federal judgeship in September, & #ColinMcDonald, a senior aide who was recently assigned to run the administration’s new “fraud” unit.
#law#LegalEthics#DOJ#ToddBlanche#Trump#retribution
#Defense Secretary #PeteHegseth told #Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Tuesday that if Anthropic does not allow its #AI model to be used “for all lawful purposes” [as if that’s what they plan to use it for], the #Pentagon would cancel Anthropic’s $200 million contract. In addition to the #contract cancellation, Anthropic would be deemed a “supply chain risk,” a classification normally reserved for companies connected to foreign adversaries, #Hegseth said.
#Trump#law#privacy#InfoSec#ContractLaw
#Anthropic said in a statement that the #Pentagon’s new language was framed as a compromise but “was paired with legalese that would allow those safeguards to be disregarded at will.” [shocker]
In a lengthy blog post Thursday, Amodei wrote: “I believe deeply in the existential importance of using #AI to defend the #UnitedStates & other democracies, & to defeat our autocratic adversaries.”
#Trump#Hegseth#law#privacy#InfoSec#ContractLaw#military#surveillance#democracy
Trump's decision stopped short of #threats issued by #Hegseth & the #Pentagon, including that it could invoke the Defense Production Act to require Anthropic's compliance. The Pentagon had also said it considered designating #Anthropic a #SupplyChain risk, a step previously only used against businesses tied to foreign adversaries.
But #Trump vowed further action if Anthropic did not cooperate with the phaseout.
#law#AI#surveillance#AutonomousWeapons#privacy#security#InfoSec
