https://www.merriam-webster.co...

Yeah, the "+" thing was that.

https://www.merriam-webster.co...

Maybe that helps.

Look, I get both parties' arguments, but logos THAT simple should not be legally trademarked.
I mean, how about someone trademarking an icon with a "+" and threatening legal action against everyone who uses a "+" in their logos. It's ridiculous.

Between the larger stone age man and the smaller one, both fighting over whatever, the bigger dude had an advantage.
Unless the smaller dude was smarter.
Hint, hint.

It does, and very much so. However, its activity during the last three decades was generally lower than historical averages.
The situation would have been worse if the Sun would have had a higher activity during this period.

I don't mind static images on loading screen, if they are made in such a way that they don't break immersion.

...But it's Climate Change.

Not that advertisers really care.

Some games actually could benefit from ads. OK, well, not ads per se, but rather product placement.
A prime example is Euro Truck Simulator 2. I actually added a mod to it which implements real-life company and product names. Hauling a truckload of XBox or encountering branded NPC haulers makes the game feel more immersive.

RPGs such as Cyberpunk 2077 or Starfield could also implement product placement. Instead of "CAN-uck!" or "Chunks" they could have introduced "Space Coke" or "MacStar" or whatever. These would not be game-breaking changes, rather fall very well within the game itself.

On the other hand, these would fit very poorly in, say, Baldur's Gate 3 or Diablo 4.

Disclaimer: I work for an Indian company (no, I am not Indian). Money's good, project is nice, and my team is not AI-threatened (ITOPS).
But yes, there's much turmoil around AI. And yes, they are trying very hard to use it.

"ackshually..."

I played with chatbots a lot, mainly for small scripting code generation.
Background: I own both Linux and Windows machines, and I admit to never had learned scripting the proper way. My scripting skills are very basic. Now, I could focus on a certain scripting environment (say, Bash) and learn it better, but I can't learn 5+ scripting language at the same time, especially since I use each very infrequently. Main purpose for script usage is home lab task automation, for example I needed a Powershell script which runs daily and converts CCTV still images to a time-lapse video. I needed a YAML configuration file which contains some automations. I needed a Bash script which extracts some archives and puts the output files in folders based on categories. I needed a python script which does some very light data conversion from one format to another (different devices output data in various formats, I wanted to harmonize those into a single format).
Add to that dozens of little things emerging from my numerous hobbies,
After posting various questions on Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow, Quora, Reddit (you know, the usual suspects), I generally had a terrible experience there. My questions were not "simple" enough - and I understand other people answer in their free time and don't have to put up with my complex questions. Naturally, I jumped at the chance to use chatbots to obtain answers.
It kind of works, but it's painful to iterate until you get a working result.
ChatGPT 3.5 likes to fall back to its comfort zone. For example, it told me to use glob pattern format in ffmpeg which is not supported under Windows, and every time there was a mistake in the script, it reverted back to attempting to use globbing. It also makes some terribly basic scripting mistakes, I found it easier to break the overall task into very small crumbs, ask it to provide me script examples of those very small crumbs (e.g. "how do you concatenate two variables as a string?") and alter my script from there.
Gemini likes to piss on ChatGPT's script outputs. It's hilarious to use a script with a small mistake in it as input, ask Gemini to fix it and see Gemini rewrite 70% of it, totally miss the mistake and introduce another.

At any rate, LLMs have a LOT to learn until they become passable at replacing even a relatively bad human being.

If they only did the same thing when the first sexually-explicit cave paintings appeared...or statues... or drawings on paper... or photos... or radio broadcasts... or video footage... or online websites... /sarcasm

I'm sorry... I don't know what that means.
Maybe this is applicable: "a person who does not experience sexual attraction"?

I dabble in home-made Generative AI, mainly Stable Diffusion. Emphasis on fantasy/sci-fi fusion images (animals, military vehicles, spaceships, Steampunk, Cyberpunk, etc.)
It's become increasingly difficult to avoid free models which contain NSFW stuff. You stumble upon them everywhere.
I found myself having to add more and more negative prompts to make sure images don't contain scantily-clad (or outright naked) females.
They're that pervasive.

So, no, not difficult at all to find and generate.

OpenAI are reading the writing on the wall and try to stay ahead of the wave. If not, lesser-prude entities will make money hand over fist out of AI pr0n.