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Meta’s AI Is Partially Trained on Breitbart and Russia Today, Study Finds
AI is sophisticated, but it’s not really intelligent. Today’s large language models used to power programs like ChatGPT, are amalgamations of scraped text found on the internet. So when Meta introduced its “state of the art” LLaMA AI back in February, eyes turned to some of the datasets used to train it, especially the Google-made…
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Dungeons & Dragons’ New Licence Tightens Its Grip On Competition
The new Dungeons & Dragons Open Gaming Licence, a document which allows a vast group of independent publishers to use the basic game rules created by D&D owner Wizards of the Coast, significantly restricts the kind of content allowed and requires anyone making money under the licence to report their products to Wizards of the…
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IKEA Asks Horror Game to Change So People Stop Comparing It to IKEA
In an unexpected move, furniture giant IKEA has sent a solo indie developer a cease and desist letter reviewed by Kotaku, demanding he make changes to his unreleased survival horror game set in an IKEA-like furniture store. Lawyers representing IKEA are claiming that the game commits trademark infringement because some press outlets have drawn comparisons between…
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The Gaming Shelf Travels Into the Cess and Citadel
A fun bit of news to get us started: the DIE RPG has an actual play(test) available on YouTube featuring writer/designer Kieron Gillen. Also, a fun little note, we’ve got some great magazines publishing RPG content — check out the new issues of Indiepocalypse and Arcadia for that sweet sweet game content!