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Re:Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games an... by nrb on Saturday May 10, 2025 @10:26AM (#43945895)
Is it too cynical to think they’re just building this to train AI against your donated games?
Re:Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games an... by blharr on Saturday May 10, 2025 @11:09AM (#43946275)
It looks more like they're just hoarding a massive personal collection of games... No mention of if this is open to public.

Or if they're even digitizing the games for some use of preservation. I always feel like when you hoard things in one location like this, one fire or other natural disaster and the entire collection is gone!

Re:Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games an... by Jolter on Saturday May 10, 2025 @03:17PM (#43948111)
They would be violating Swedish copyright law if they did, so they better not!

Much easier to get away with such things in the US (it seems).

Re:Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games an... by kmeisthax on Saturday May 10, 2025 @04:48PM (#43948874)
You don't need a physical archive to do that; a torrent of a bunch of SNES games would be good enough.
Re:Embracer Games Archive is preserving 75000 video games an... by astrange on Sunday May 11, 2025 @04:46AM (#43952380)
Pretty much every game ever published has been digitally preserved already. I don't think you're going to get much out of feeding a binary into a pretraining dataset though.