@James Hultquist-Todd I see that. But I'm only curious about how Dave came across it. I'm ok to admit I'm behind on my font news and doing my best to catch up.
You know, Tiffany, I agree, I shouldn’t have posted it. De gustibus and all that. It was not a helpful comment, and I apologize. I do dig some of its designer’s other designs.
I’d have liked to remove my comment, but this forum is set up to prohibit “rewriting history,” so I guess that’s that.
I can't remember signing any new contract recently (last few years) with them and searching my mail, I found just a plain TOS update message from September 2022.
Business operating a terms of service model tend to use contracts that allow them to make unilateral changes to the terms of service, in which case the only recourse if you don’t like the changes may be to stop using the service.
This discussion is predicated on the idea that fonts.ai will eventually produce something other than marketing copy. "Stay tuned for updates" (particularly in the ML space) means "we haven't got this working yet".
If CM's almost silent unilateral change of TOS gives them rights to train AI with all the fonts from all shops, then good luck to them. Since then a free AI font generator will surely emerge, with who knows what base and TOS (Google).
Not to mention that piracy will evolve with AI more than anything else, because it will become almost untrackable. You won't be able to judge by the used font which generator it came from. Current piracy is almost untrackable, imagine a self-generating one.
Not to mention that piracy will evolve with AI more than anything else, because it will become almost untrackable. You won't be able to judge by the used font which generator it came from. Current piracy is almost untrackable, imagine a self-generating one.
I can’t help but wonder who they think fonts.ai is for. prototypo shut down after ten years not because it didn't work well or wasn't interesting new tech, but because it never found users
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I’d have liked to remove my comment, but this forum is set up to prohibit “rewriting history,” so I guess that’s that.
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I can't remember signing any new contract recently (last few years) with them and searching my mail, I found just a plain TOS update message from September 2022.
Not to mention that piracy will evolve with AI more than anything else, because it will become almost untrackable. You won't be able to judge by the used font which generator it came from. Current piracy is almost untrackable, imagine a self-generating one.