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An AI-powered copyright tool is taking down AI-generated Mario pictures


But is fan art worthy of a DMCA notice, too?

As the posts are now gone, we can’t see what the pictures looked like, but at least one other was apparently made with Grok — a tool that’s extremely lax about guardrails for offensive or infringing content. One of the accounts listed by X posted last week that they had received a notice for AI-generated images that showed Luigi and Waluigi as IDF soldiers. It’s also apparently used third-party enforcement tools in the past, sometimes leading to confusion and accusations of copyright trolling — as with a series of notices over Nintendo-related content in the sandbox game Garry’s Mod.

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