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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Okay, but (ignoring that procedural generation can also be probabilistic) what is the functional difference? The point I'm getting at is that you cannot banish the one without necessarily limiting the other.

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s less of a functional different and more of a moral one.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 weeks ago

Content theft is a separate issue. We can agree to ban the fruits of content theft without drawing arbitrary technical taboos.