Addendum: The file-sharing issue is the only real possible long term influence this could have. Possibly corps will torrent less, or they may just be more careful to cover their tracks in future. But file-sharing has been illegal since before Anthropic, OpenAI, etc existed, so none of this is new.

2/2 For long term impact, it depends. If you're someone who disapproves of copyrighted works being used to train generative AI, this settlement is a total nothingburger as it does nothing on that front, and couldn't.

It may bring in a little cash if they didn't buy their copy of your book though.

This settlement is really only about the file-sharing issue, i.e. Anthropic didn't pay for copies of published works. Note that it has no precedential value, and as far as training on legally-acquired works, the Court had basically said that was fair use.

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The settlement is final, the terms won't be altered at this stage.

It isn't a precedent. This case was settled by the parties, and as such no judgment was handed down. Settlements have no precedential value, this won't affect any other company.

This is badass as hell!

Same. Tenebrae doesn't really feel organic in the original game, imo.

These are WIP. Darion's house has since had a fence added.

Thank you so much! I appreciate this so much!

For story, we are planning to replicate all of that as closely as we can, while incorporating cut content.

We have actually implemented jumping in U8, among other technical achievements like basements without teleports, and climbing.

That said, jumping will not be necessary for the main quest in U8 Exult. Likely just for side stuff and easter eggs.

Also @ocho.bsky.social (and anyone else), if you have any feedback on Ultima 8 itself, anything at all - stuff you dislike, stuff you like, content you wish was in, or wish was removed - do feel free to let me know.

Thank you! I appreciate that!

Note: we aren't using this map 1:1. Tenebrae in the final U8 Exult will be a mixture of this and the one you see in the original game, with influences from both.

Hah! You're not wrong I guess, but it'd still be creepy to eat.

I'd say so, it's still human flesh. Is it ethical though? And would a food replicator even allow human flesh?