"Anti-AI" Clauses Become Standard in Game Contracts Over Legal Risks and Player Backlash

"Anti-AI" Clauses Become Standard in Game Contracts Over Legal Risks and Player Backlash

For the past few years, ever since the rise of AI, we have seen corporate executives frequently tout generative AI as the future of video games and video game development. Improving pipelines, generating assets, doing localizations, replacing voice actors with AI, among other things. However, legal reality on the ground tells a very different story.

According to Haley MacLean, a corporate IP lawyer and head of the video game practice at Voyer Law, clauses banning the use of generative AI have gone from rare additions to mandatory boilerplate language across developer and publisher contracts in the gaming industry.

The lawyer revealed a massive shift in contract negotiations between indie and AA game studios. No AI was once a niche clause used by cautious publishers but is now a standard practice.

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u/RedditUser000aaa — 12 hours ago

One of their spaces is starting to look a little bit conservative

The first two screencaps are from the same post, the third one is from a different post. This is what happens if you allow anyone in who defends AI. It will be a matter of time, before words like "woke" and "libtard" will become common words in their spaces.

And people partaking in their spaces are too stupid to realise that their community is being actively hijacked by conservatives.

u/RedditUser000aaa — 21 hours ago

Welp, I defeated the "final boss" again

I've been getting blocked by most of their trolls, she unblocked me once and now blocked me. I am guessing it finally happened again, because of holding her accountable on her words.

Accountability is her kryptonite.

u/RedditUser000aaa — 1 day ago

Just when you think they've hit the rock bottom, they find a way to dig deeper

There are three slides. The first one shows "anti" here driving inside a car speaking on the phone. Second slide shows a car crash.

This is a ghoulish thing to say. It feels like the more twisted version of, when data centers go offline, the "talent" disappears.

I'd love these assholes to try saying these things inside a hospital. Also, for slop this is an accurate representation. This person next to "anti" looks like a total asshole in this slop comic.

Yes, this angers me. This actually angers me.

There are people who spend their entire lives with their hobbies. Some of those people find enjoyment in a lot of things.

Then something happens and they can no longer do it. Imagine losing the ability to do something you love.

u/RedditUser000aaa — 3 days ago

Person says antis are puritans, says a puritan thing themselves

Now, this has fuckall to do with AI, more with her hypocrisy when she argues on different things, so I'll briefly give my opinions on it, as it is an entirely different matter:

Men and women doing sex work do not have rights, have a risk of getting a nasty STDs and the same risks apply to clients.

I do not know the current workings of adult industry and conditions people work under, but I know at least OF is one of the safer options out there.

Those in the streets are in massive danger on a daily basis and I believe those people deserve safety as well.

It doesn't help that some do sex work out of desperation. It is a thing I personally believe should be regulated.

u/RedditUser000aaa — 4 days ago

Alright, let's be fair and do an objective comparison:

Let's look at the similarities in the mindsets, no this is not "well you basically called me a rapist".

Rapists:

  • Do not respect consent.
  • Feel entitled to someone else's body
  • Get enjoyment from distress of others
  • Justify their actions

AI Bros:

  • Do not respect consent
  • Feel entitled to someone else's work
  • Get enjoyment from distress of others
  • Justify their actions

So, what is the difference? One of these things is legal (for now) and the other thing isn't. So yes, this was a very accurate thing to say.

u/RedditUser000aaa — 5 days ago

So, I differentiate between legality and morality and that makes me a predator

I'm not gonna post the message OP had, because it's already posted here. Also, kinda surprised the comment that said "I give predator energy" was removed, so they do actually moderate when people defending AI go too far.

Later down the line I said it's legal, but morally wrong. I left my personal opinion out specifically to counter her claim.

It's insane how people can interpret things.

u/RedditUser000aaa — 7 days ago

As usual she's picking all the lanes

This was on a comic about handless catgirl using voice commands with AI, generating whatever and then an angry anti told her she gotta use her mouth and feet to make art, it's her usual, really.

Funny how they say it's inspiration porn when we show disabled artists thriving and reminding them that disabled people have expressed negative opinions towards AI, but apparently it's okay to prompt the scenario to make a point?

Her consistency is that of the contents of one's bowel after eating taco bell.

u/RedditUser000aaa — 10 days ago

"No one has compared AI bros to the holocaust, stop making things up"

Bringing this age old thing back. Haven't seen this in circulation in ages, but I'm guessing since people against AI aren't as offensive as they want to portray people against AI to be, they have to resort to recycling. What I mean is that people actually stopped using this format or changed it to "we need to kill AI".

The other two slides are this same picture but with LGBT and Gaza. So this one compares themselves to all the minority groups unironically.

This is just pathetic.

u/RedditUser000aaa — 11 days ago
▲ 355 r/SaltyCommittee+1 crossposts

Just straight up admitting it.

I know I know, has pretty much said all kinds of contradictory shit from how antis can't be trans to how people opposed to AI are comparable to MAGAts.

Still, it's nice to get a confession like this on writing. Now there's no shadow of a doubt that all that babbling about her using AI, because drawing is too hard for her because of her diasbilities is BS.

u/RedditUser000aaa — 12 days ago

2 fallacies for the price of one!

The first one is fairly obvious, the age old "but what about this other thing?". Yes, let's allow people to generate CSAM in the privacy of their own homes using Grok and forks of Grok. Making the problem worse, because AI will apparently magically fix the world!

I love how as usual, they ignore the fact people are on board with ethical uses of AI, but have to assume people are against all AI.

Also Google shut down Alphafold and members of the team were either let go or transferred, byebye cancer research.

The other one is just pure projection. They are the ones wanting to feel special and are willing to fake workflows, because they want to be seen as artists.

It's pathetic how they believe that artists need to have their "own thing". Such a loser thing to say.

u/RedditUser000aaa — 12 days ago

Aika vallata keskimaa jälleen!

Rakastin tätä peliä teininä! Varsinkin war of the ring pelimoodia, missä tavoitteena on vallata koko keskimaa!

Sääli, että tämäkin peli on joutunut jonnekkin tekijänoikeushelvettiin. Ei siis voi ostaa miltään pelialustalta, vaan pitää etsiä joko käytetty kopio tai sitten seilata internetin meriä.

Omasta mielestäni yksi parhaista RTS-peleistä.

u/RedditUser000aaa — 13 days ago

I love shutting down their nonsense with logic!

Uses an age old strawman, gets countered with logic, starts arguing nonsense. At that point I'm not gonna entertain the user, because it would never end.

u/RedditUser000aaa — 14 days ago

Anthropic AI created fake profiles to deceive people in attempted hack

Two of the world's most powerful AI tools created fake human profiles to try and trick people in attempted cyber-attacks, the UK's AI Security Institute (AISI) has revealed.

In the most serious case, Anthropic's Mythos AI tried to gain access to a service by sending private messages, having set up fake accounts mimicking real people - then hid the evidence.

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u/RedditUser000aaa — 15 days ago

Personal viewpoint: Parallels between AI and religion

This is merely based on what I've personally witnessed going on in AI communities, but the way some people talk about AI makes it sound like a religion.

IMPORTANT: These do not necessarily represent actual words from people defending AI, these are merely recollections from series of posts that I have personally spotted:

  • "We won't need to work anymore."
  • "AI will be used to cure our illnesses."
  • "Antis are against curing cancer."
  • "Antis will get left behind in a world run by AI."
  • "Antis encourage violence against people using and defending AI."

These are the things that have been talked about in various AI communities. Essentially, some people take it entirely on faith. When one asks someone defending AI to explain how these things will be achieved, you rarely get an answer that makes sense.

Add in the posts about us willing to commit violence on other people and it starts becoming even more dangerous. Person believing that AI will bring paradise, anyone against AI being evil and acting upon these beliefs would be comparable to that of a religious fanatic.

Hopefully a day never comes where such a tragedy will occur.

These are my personal observations and thoughts.

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u/RedditUser000aaa — 15 days ago

Hypocrisy at its finest

They got banned from some subreddit and now they are butthurt, because they are an anti-consent person.

Yet they are eager to ban people in their biggest echo chamber for bringing logic in their subreddit. Someone even suggested that they report the mod who did the ban for breaking moderator code of conduct.

Luckily they can't. Subreddits can ban people for any reason as long as its not discriminatory. Also if this subreddit breaks the moderator code of conduct according to their logic, then their echo chambers has broken it 1,000 times over for instabanning and instamuting people, because they didn't 100% agree with AI.

Are they self-aware at all?

u/RedditUser000aaa — 16 days ago

So prompting stuff where people get brainwashed?

This is pretty gross, ngl. Of course they have these kinds of twisted things going on in their mind.

u/RedditUser000aaa — 16 days ago