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Attempt to get copyright on wholly AI-generated art gunned down by US Supreme Court
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Attempt to get copyright on wholly AI-generated art gunned down by US Supreme Court

The highest legal authority in the USA has refused to take a case involving a Missouri computer scientist who wants to copyright art created by his own generative AI system. The compsci guy in question, Dr Stephen Thaler, appealed to the Supreme Court justices after lower courts upheld a US Copyright Office decision that his art doesn't make the cut for copyright protection, because it wasn't created by a human. As reported by Reuters, Thaler's generative AI tech is the winningly dorkish "Devic

No Fallout New Vegas remaster teases here, Iron Galaxy say, we're just really enthusiastic about meetings
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No Fallout New Vegas remaster teases here, Iron Galaxy say, we're just really enthusiastic about meetings

Have you ever noticed your next company-wide meeting's due and thought the following: 'Oh, we should post an image prominently featuring a screen from a game rumoured to potentially be getting the remake or remaster treatment, but solely to illustrate how much we love meetings'? Well, Iron Galaxy Studios - co-developers of Skyrim's Switch port and support studio on Fallout 76 - say was what happened late last week. The studio say their social media posts featuring Fallout: New Vegas' 'Please St

Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional is a charming 2000s, Windows XP take on the Vampire Survivors formula
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Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional is a charming 2000s, Windows XP take on the Vampire Survivors formula

Vampire Survivors clones! They're a dime a dozen these days, primarily because poncle created an admittedly very strong template to mimic. This week's bullet heaven, as the genre has come to be known, is a charming little entry called Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional, a take on the format that imagines a world where your Windows XP running computer's icons all want to kill you. Read more