Author: psheffield

OPINION: Unity has destroyed it’s reputation with video game developers

Unity is one of the largest video game development engines on the market right now, with thousands of game developers  utilizing the software and turning the engine into a veritable juggernaut. Now, both Unity and its overarching company, Unity Technologies, futures are all but certain following a recent policy change that sent the game development space into an uproar.On Sept. 12, Unity Technologies announced a new business model, including a new “Unity Runtime Fee” that would apply to developers whose games reach predetermined levels of income and game installs. Depending on the license…

Medium hints at a nascent media coalition to block AI crawlers

Web publishing platform Medium has announced that it will block OpenAI’s GPTBot, an agent that scrapes web pages for content used to train the company’s AI models. But the real news may be that a group of platforms may soon form a unified front against what many consider an exploitation of their content. Medium joins […]