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Bungie appears to have extensively plagiarized an artist's work in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post

1/ Dear @MarathonTheGame graphic design lovers. It is time for me to burn some bridges. Because thanks to @4nt1r34l daily posters stolen and put as textures in the game and many other assets utilized, you have created AntirealTheGame. @Bungie @josephacross

Bungie has issued an official statement, they are throwing an artist under the bus and pledging to make it right with the original artist.

This is a developing story.

Marathon @feddit.org

Bungie appears to have extensively plagiarized an artist's work in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post

bsky.app /profile/billain.bsky.social/post/3lpafkzimqc2x

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They just trained their employees using other people’s copyrighted works. What’s the problem?
- The implication that generative AI would spit out pixel-for-pixel copies from its training data is flat out wrong. Even generative AI would have made more original assets than what Bungie put in Marathon. The worst part is that this is like the 4th time they've been caught doing this.
  Being inspired by an art style and using that style is fine, and completely normal. Thats how art works. But copying and pasting 1 for 1 is not fine.
  
  I agree but it can get pretty close. Try asking gpt-4o to generate a realistic picture of an adventure who wears a hat and wields a whip to find lost treasure. It returns basically a picture of Harrison Ford
- There's nothing wrong with inspiration (attribution is nice), but what's evident is they straight up LIFTED parts of antireal's art into in-game assets.
- This is something Sam Altman would say

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