• caseofthematts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’m just going to post this comment to this thread as well, since this is newer. Classic shifting of blame and no one taking responsibility for scummy actions.

    Fun fact: Funko’s current CEO is the ex-president of Wizards of the Coast!

    Why is this relevant? Well, under her leadership, WotC sent pinkerton agents to someone’s home to threaten them because they got some Magic the Gathering cards early. She said things like Dungeons & Dragons players were under-monetised, pushing to make the Table Top game more like a microtransaction-filled video game, and helped with the OGL scandal.

    The OGL, for anyone unfamiliar, was an Open Gaming License WotC had for years with D&D 3rd party creators. It allowed certain things to be created using D&D mechanics and lore by anyone that followed its guidelines and allowances. A couple years ago, WotC tried to change that so they would make more money off of people trying to create things for D&D - to profit off of indie creators passionate about the game. There was a huge backlash, and they eventually went back on this decision.

    All this to say, you can see what kind of leader the current Funko CEO is, and what’s happening with itch isn’t surprising to me.

  • Sixty@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    We HoLd A dEeP ReSpEcT…

    Yeah hiring AI slop to take down websites with zero humanity oversight screams “respect.”

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      4 months ago

      It wouldn’t be so bad if the AI engaged with a human at some point to confirm the action was both warranted and proportionate. Nope, apparently it’s allowed to just do whatever the hell it wants, with literally zero oversight.

      • InputZero@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Corporations are trying to set the precedent that they can not be held responsible for what their AI does. If it required an employee action to follow through then there’s a point of liability. Zero oversight isn’t a bug of AI, it’s a feature. It puts more distance between the people at the top and any liability or consequences they might face.

        ‘Why I could not have known this software was wrong 90% of the time, I’m not a computer scientist. It’s beside the point that all those mistakes AI from the company we contracted were in our favor. Regardless that’s in the past, the new generation of Artificial Intelligence will correct those mistakes and will detect 10% more fraud. It’s wonderful that we finally have a tool to combat the rampant fraud and bad actors that has taken over this country.’

  • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    So Funko issued a non-apology blaming Brandshield.

    Brandshield issued a non-apology blaming the registrar (Iwantmyname), and saying their AI tool definitely had nothing to do with it

    And Iwantmyname hasn’t even put out a statement.

    Fucked all around, yet it seems nobody will be facing consequence for this except Itch.io who got their website nuked out of nowhere.

    Though if I were Itch, I’d get a new registrar ASAP.