Nintendo are now Patent Trolls

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This is your occasional reminder that Nintendo, which enjoys continued profitability due to the constant repackaging and rehashing of its intellectual properties that have been around our entire lives, and has not produced any novel intellectual property since Pokemon, inflates the prices of its games so it can better afford to unleash legal terror upon anyone who might do anything with its intellectual properties without its express permission, now spends a good chunk of money perpetuating an anti-AI astroturfing campaign, the point of which is to make reactionary plebs demand that AI is so severly limited and unavailable to other plebs, that those other plebs won't be able to use AI to make funny Mario images or maybe print some Pikachu tshirts. Once we get to that point, Nintendo will be free to outsource most of its creative processes to AI (which they 100% intend to do), without worrying that anyone else can do it, too. After all, it will be a thousand times easier for Nintendo to use AI, if your average person has little or no access to similar tools. 

Sony, Disney, and all other global IP hoarders are heavily involved, too. The reflexive anti-AI sentiment you see all over low-information parts of the internet is just good ole capitalist social deception. The talking points about "environmental impact" and "they steal from artists" is engineered by trillion-dollar corporations who just don't want to share their amazing new toys with anyone else. The same entities that spent billions trying to ban VCRs, implement awful DRM, and suing people who make fan games. All for exactly the same rea$ons.