A toy company managed to completely dismantle an indie game storefront, according to Itch.io, whose website was down for half a day after an automated system disabled the domain. According to Itch.io's staff, Funko uses BrandShield, an AI brand protection software, which reported a potentially infringing page on the site to Itch.io's domain registrar, iwantmyname, who then took down the entire domain, without waiting for an appeal from the site owner. Itch.io claimed that the page in question was taken down the moment they got a takedown notice, but that iwantmyname ignored their confirmation that the content was already removed and disabled the site regardless. Eventually, the issue was resolved, and Itch.io is back up and functioning.

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[Hippocampus_Hamster]

Exactly!

Its almost as if people are embarrassed to buy them.

 

[sucrose1]

Yep, still absolutely hideous. I will never understand why anyone would buy a Funko figurine, plastic waste AND extremely ugly.

 

[console]

Wow! I have my account there! I would get very upset and angry means can't get games from it. I'm getting tired heard about AI problems are get a lot of worse right now to future.

That's why I think about AI would cause many problems are ruining our and people experience on internet. Know like AI police something like that. If what AI police take a lot of warez and other illegal websites down. How affect our and people feeling about AI police take many illegal websites down? ... Angry for all of us. I worry about AI police be around in year 2028 and after that. All warez and illegal websites will get blocked or disabled on AI's powerful control. No way to bypass blocked or disabled cause by AI control is way too powerful like overkill for everything on internet! I hope Trump president get in his office and will order all companies to remove AI from all servers and on computers with any operating system like Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 12, etc in near future. We must to protest against AI on around world wide and we must said no to AI on our computers and servers! AI must stopped then removed then recovery will start to rebuilding everything again without AI messy that cause to them. AI is full of H*LL that would ruining us and people life to much worse!

When we see AI mess up everything on internet. I will going to quit and done with massive plaque issues / problems on internet due to AI! I hate AI would give huge problems with us and people. I can feel very strong about pure evil AI would shoot or throw knifes at our heart and people hearts! Major damage to our and people life cause by AI! I will go to step down to downgrade to half Amish when AI become flood up whole on internet then done with them!

How would you and everyone like companies put AI on your computers with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11, 12, Apple Mac OS, Linux, etc and how everyone feeling about AI? They will get very angry on AI are responsible for heavy damaged everywhere on computers, servers and on internet! AI on social websites like Facebook, Instagram, X (Twitter), etc are horrific and damaged our experience in our life! We and people should fill heavy lawsuits against AI for damaged on their hardware and on internet!

 

[Maximumbeans]

To be honest, I had never heard about Funko before reading about this story. I'm probably out of the loop. Reading all the comments about how ugly their figurines are, I thought you guys were saying that just because they're the bad guys in this story. But I went to check by myself, and OMG, you're right! They are ugly toys. Not a fan of the big head design at all. I wonder how a company selling exclusively ugly toys can survive? Strange world.

I think Funko took off because they embraced nerd culture at the right time and the 'omg it's Doctor Who/Marvel/Pokemon/One Piece etc.' factor overtook the art style. They shot so high that they'd struggle to fail now.

 

[Dark_Ansem]

I have no idea who Funko is but this was a bad move

 

[zxr750j]

Wrong post

 

[munnimann]

Quite easily. the most simple answer is an AI model went to their site to train and killed it whilst trying to do so. This is actually a major problem on the internet at the moment. My website hit it's data cap super suddenly a bit back. Turns out some model went there and tried to train off all the content and used all the limited monthly data.

Did you even read the post? That is not at all what happened here.

 

[Ryab]

Did you even read the post? That is not at all what happened here.

Yes I understand that. But the crux of the problem is identical. Both are of the same source.

 

[tofino]

who could have guessed that something using ai would have gone wrong smfh

 

[Apex]

We call them Unko Pops in this house. Unko being Japanese for feces.

 

[kijetesantakalu042]

We call them Unko Pops in this house. Unko being Japanese for feces.

Kuso is a more severe way of saying feces. It translates to shit

 

[MarkDarkness]

Content-related IP infringement is not a criterion for domain name takedown even in the abstract. There is more to this story.

 

[TankedThomas]

AI has so many great applications, but slop companies like Funko use it to do stupid things and thus continue to fuel the "AI bad" bandwagon.

Fuck Funko though. Their products are only good for filling up landfills, which is exactly what they're doing because they can't sell half that crap.

 

[Vetusomaru]

And nothing of value has been lost. Itch.io is full with woken trash.

 

[Dark_Ansem]

And nothing of value has been lost. Itch.io is full with woken trash.

You're on time like an Italian train

 

[stubenhocker]

From now on for me every of the funko products is a fukno! now.