"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."

https://beyondloom.com/blog/onwigglypaint.html

Edit: I am not the author of this. Please go check out https://beyondloom.com/ for more of the author's work.

@june I've seen similar things happen in other spaces. Some dipshit is running around creating .com domains for Quake source ports with slop websites and "blogs" full of ad posts

@june the annoying thing of course is that this isn't necessarily something that you'd need LLMs for, but they've certainly lowered the barrier to entry on this kind of grift.

it's depressing, I'm not sure what an actual solution would be other than kicking the people responsible in the balls until they learn to be decent human beings