I though this was going to be one of those weird ass saunas that people abroad who don’t quite know what they’re doing build.

Your post isn’t very detailed but I take that you’re using AI to adjust color temperature of images or video? That kind of thing should be very easy to do with normal software.

Came here expecting it to be about someone listening to your package installs

Gold, silver, and platinum cookie options? What next, gems and privacybux?

One can always make a hypothesis, but testing it with experiments is what really matters.

It’s been about sexual abuse. I’m going to call it universally unacceptable.

Does it count? I find it just kinda sexually icky, and I think it would be harmful to the child. If you think it’d be fine, not even in the gray area, then I guess there’s no argument there anymore.

I can believe the the dev in that it wasn’t intended to be sexual. But should intent excuse otherwise unacceptable content? Valve says it depicts a sexual interaction, though that seems to be debated a lot.

My own opinion is that it’s too close, and that this is the kind of boundary shouldn’t be pushed. Despite intentions, the dev really should have known better than to send in anything that could be interpreted as even remotely pedo content.

Again?

Anything’s possible but I wouldn’t assume it was planned unless something else came up. I think he’s just riding the accidental publicity, which I don’t really blame him for, though the dishonesty of his spin kinda pisses me off.

I’d like to hear epic’s explanation on why the clean version was still too much.

It’s an internet connected appliance with a screen, made by samsung. If you follow the right kinds of news, that combination should send shivers down your spine.

Edit: l’ll just say I don’t think the question was so dumb it should downvoted to hell.

I can guess who you mean. A couple boomer facebook type of meme posters showed up about within the past 2 months.

Wife bad funny

https://lemmy.world/post/39297021

Child Sexual Abuse Material. Legalese for child porn and adjacent things.

Some previous article which contained valve’s response, and a description of the scene. I didn’t find it immediately, but I’ll check again.

I guess you wouldn’t be wrong to say that sexual abuse of children is challenging and pushes boundaries.

E: see replies.

It was a child doing pony play, riding a naked adult man-horse. The dev claimed it was not sexual.

This was removed later but it’s the build you send for review that gets reviewed. Other stores got a later version, hence why it passed on those.

Dev was not given a chance to remove it as it turns out steam has a policy that anything that resembles CSAM gets denied permanently.

It very well could be true, but the dev also seemed full of shit in the first interview I saw, pretending that he had no clue why it was banned.

So, as far as I can tell, your arguments are that that a normal font is nothing more than the alphabet, therefore there’s no art in it, and therefore the creator shouldn’t have any claim to it.

My argument is that every detail is an artistic choice, and that simply making it look aesthetically pleasing or distinctive is art. If fonts weren’t art, why would people even bother with different looking fonts?

But regardless of the art question, if the creator can’t license their fonts, it would mean that they get no compensation for when some company uses their work.

I chose a very extreme example, but it’s still just a stylized E, used for text. My word processor also has lots of different E’s to choose from, all stylized differently.

nor does it represent the letter E. It IS the letter E.

I have E’s that have serifs. The concept of letter E doesn’t say anything about that, but some fonts have them and others don’t.

Where do you draw the line? Serifs? Embossing? Floral motifs?

I designed a stylized E. Which side of the line does it belong?

Font and alphabet are not the same thing.

Obviously nobody can or should own the letter E, but you pretend that the font creator’s work adds nothing to that.

Someone had to do the work to make it look nice, beyond just being an E.