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Cake day: August 26th, 2023

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  • I don’t see how it will have any effect beyond what the Steam store already has on the indie market. Indies already flourish thanks to Steam’s use of discovery algorithms instead of human curation.

    The Steam Machine isn’t going to compete with consoles. It’s not a replacement for a console and the target market for this machine is PC users not console users. Console gamers who don’t know what Steam is will not buy this machine like they didn’t buy Steam Decks instead of Nintendo Switches. The goal of Valve’s hardware push is to show that an alternative for Windows is possible. Valve wants to break Microsoft’s monopoly on the PC market. Since Microsoft is the biggest threat for Valve. The more anti-consumer Windows becomes the more it puts Valve’s business in danger, since a shitty Windows experience can push PC gamers towards consoles.




  • They can probably reuse the individual clips, but not this exact edit. The edit was still done by a human. AI can’t produce an entire coherent sequence of different clips. Generative AI basically can’t produce clips longer than 10 seconds without going wonky, it can’t even transition to a different camera angle in the same clip. Also the audio and music in this ad is copyrighted.


  • The Coke ad is still edited by a human though. So you probably can’t use the same shot for shot sequence. Like if you created a movie by editing clips together from public domain movies you created a derivative work and that work is copyrightable. Even if you don’t own the copyright on the individual clips you own the copyright on the new creative expression. So people can’t just copy your exact edit. Like the idea is not copyrightable but the execution of that idea is.