itch.io has accused Funko, the makers of the popular Funko Pop figures and the recent Funko Fusion game, of using “some trash AI-powered brand protection software” called Brand Shield to create a fake phishing report using the website’s registrar. Unfortunately, this took the website offline for several hours. According to itch.io, the company’s registrar automatically enforced a block of the website’s domain and ignored the platform’s appeal, despite developers taking down the disputed page almost immediately. At the time, the platform considered setting up a new domain, but eventually decided to wait until the problem solved itself. While itch.io remained offline for several hours, it is now completely operational.
I wonder if there would be some lawsuits and criminal charges and fines related to AI and domain registers taking down websites because of a faulty AI, and companies who followed an AI order to takedown a website instead of waiting for a court order from a real judge to takedown a website because of copyright violations.
