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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by qup on Saturday August 22, 2026 @10:58AM (#49400446)
Legally, I agree.

Morally, I think it's totally wild to care if some totally unrelated real world thing gets named after a twenty+ year old cultural icon of a TV show as an homage.

They're attempting to profit off their business. The office thing is a theme.

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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by mcmcmc on Saturday August 22, 2026 @11:15AM (#49400622)
I can’t imagine having so little empathy that you can’t put yourself in the shoes of the creator of the IP. They didn’t even bother to tweak the characters. It’s not “inspired by” or riffing on a theme, it’s a straight ripoff being used to market some AI product. Do you think anyone who created The Office would want to be associated with AI, something that’s threatening to drive them out of a job?

What pisses me off the most is it’s just so damn lazy.

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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by StilesCrisis on Saturday August 22, 2026 @11:34AM (#49400808)
Honestly, making Ricky Gervais upset might be the most redeeming thing in this product.
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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by qup on Sunday August 23, 2026 @09:26AM (#49408699)
No man, if it's a "straight ripoff", it would be a TV show.

Not an programming application.

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Re:Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your c... by mcmcmc on Sunday August 23, 2026 @10:42AM (#49409234)
Right, because a Temu backpack with Darth Vader on it isn’t ripping off Star Wars either

And not everyone on the internet is a man

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