I’m stunned WOTC hasn’t sued them over this yet. I undertook a related project in ‘21 [0] and had two different lawyers tell me Wizards are notoriously litigiou

I’m stunned WOTC hasn’t sued them over this yet. I undertook a related project in ‘21 [0] and had two different lawyers tell me Wizards are notoriously litigious and that they’ve even come after creators of fan art in the past. [0] https://hardwork.party/#/entropy/ https://hardwork.party/#/entropy/ … recursively-generated MTG-style cards generated by GPT-3 (not 3.5t) and VQGAN+CLIP. The recursion brings out the crazy! I ended up scrubbing for every non-dictionary word in the MTG corpus - find a ‘nono’ word? Regenerate. Also did cosine vector similarity on the body, title, type, and flavor text fields against existing MTG corpus to throw out anything too similar. Also my partner on the project ZNO did all-original card BG, back, and icons. In the end the thing was an art piece so it didn’t suffer from deviating widely from MTG, although I’d say it probably would have been a bigger commercial success as a straight imitation.