Funko blocked a famous platform for indie developers using AI algorithms
The site was inactive for several hours.
The famous manufacturer of collectible figurines Funko has blocked the platform for indie developers Itch.io.
This was reported by representatives of the platform on social networks. According to them, the reason was a complaint about one of the site’s pages:
“I'm not kidding, itchio was disabled by Funko due to them using some “AI-backed” brand protection software called Brand Shield, which generated a fake phishing report to our registrar, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain.”
However, the company noted that they immediately removed all controversial content from the site: “Also, to be clear, we did remove the controversial page as soon as we received the notification, because it is not worth fighting with such things.”
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