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We have reached a new threshold in genAI gloom, with a game dev cancelling a demo for fear of copycats ripping them off before release

In what I suspect is the start of a trend, assuming it isn't one already, the creators of Drunken Goddess Reflux have yanked a planned public demo partly because they're concerned about people using generative AI to clone their game and release a copy before they even launch. Read more

We have reached a new threshold in genAI gloom, with a game dev cancelling a demo for fear of copycats ripping them off before release

In what I suspect is the start of a trend, assuming it isn't one already, the creators of Drunken Goddess Reflux have yanked a planned public demo partly because they're concerned about people using generative AI to clone their game and release a copy before they even launch.

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