Intending to speed up resolution of its antitrust lawsuit with Epic Games, the state’s attorney general and Match Group, tech giant Google has called on the court to dismiss most arguments about its revenue-sharing agreements, app store business model, and other app stores. -related projects.

Google’s legal team has filed a new lawsuit that will provide adequate information to help ascertain the validity of Google’s claims.

The tech giant believes that none of its merchandise in the play store violates antitrust laws. If the court accepts Google’s appeal, the litigation will still continue as there are other claims that need to be settled legally. Notably, Google is looking forward to the court’s ruling on five major lawsuits that appear to be critical to a plaintiff’s ability to record alleged anti-competitive behavior.

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Google believes the court should dismiss the claim that the company’s developer distribution agreement is illegal on the grounds that it prevents distribution to other app stores. The company states that it has not established any legal obligation to distribute to other app stores. In addition, he states that new generation Android devices typically come with more than one app store pre-installed.

Google also said that if consumers choose, they can freely install additional app stores using a web browser.

According to a Google spokesperson, Android is the only mobile platform that supports multiple app stores. In fact, most Android devices have at least two built-in app stores with the ability to support others. However, Match Group, Epic, and the state’s attorney general have deliberately overlooked the flexibility and choice offered by Google Play and Android.

Apart from the play store argument, Google also hopes to close another dispute, which is mostly about a Google-managed program called Project Hug. The program was launched to encourage Android game developers to make their apps available on the Google Play Store.

Alleged bribery

Google has offered under-the-table payouts to game developers to encourage them to launch their apps on the play store, according to the parties. They also claim that the amount of the payment was huge and Google tried to make it legal by calling it the App and Game Speed ​​Program.

According to Epic Games, Google introduced the program in question because the company was afraid of its competitors. He wanted to prevent other developers from following suit after launching Fortnite for Android exclusively outside of the play store via its own installer.

The creator of Fortnite also stated that Google wanted to monopolize the system as the organization was very afraid that Epic would maintain momentum with other preset deals. In addition, it may team up with OEMs such as Samsung to reduce revenue share. However, Google is not ready to accept the allegations.

According to Google, Project Hug never intended to stop them from creating competing app stores.

According to the tech giant, Project Hug was never intended to be anti-competitive — the whistleblowers are trying to distort the program. It focused solely on motivating developers to use the Google Play Store to release new or updated content.

Applicants, on the other hand, are not prepared to accept Google’s explanation for this. They have successfully proven that Google employees often disable chat history or internal discussions to delete sensitive messages related to a case. Although Google had previously asked for a postponement of the trial, it was denied.

Google has faced numerous legal challenges these days. Last month, it lost a legal battle with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) that forced the organization to agree to changes to its Android operating system, such as stopping the practice of forcing device manufacturers to pre-install Google’s app library like Chrome or YouTube.

Award-winning science fiction writer Lavi Tidhar is a busy man. Between his own writing and editing projects, including The Best of Science Fiction anthology, he works with an animator Nir Yaniv in a series of science fiction films through his company positronincluding Mars Machineryabout “toaster and coffee pot on Mars” and film noir moontown. But when Yaniv approached him with another project, building something with Midjourney to generate AI images, he said yes—with a few conditions.

result Welcome to the future of your AI! – which you can watch below – is a disturbingly surreal short film set in a future in which the world has been destroyed, but one person has been found by a clearly well-intentioned artificial intelligence who seeks to help – to the best of their ability.

Alison Flood: Who came up with the idea for your latest project?

Lavi Tidhar: It all started when I had a friend who is a game designer and he started talking to me about Midjourney with great enthusiasm. I thought it was amazing and told Nir to go and play with him. We were aware of the ongoing ethical discussions, but were not going to do anything about it.

Then Nir called me and said if we could do something like La Jeti, a French sci-fi film from the 60s made from individual images that can be interesting. Plot La Jeti includes a person traveling through time from post-apocalyptic Paris to our present – this was the inspiration for 12 monkeys. We just loved the technical aspect: can you tell a cinematic story using only still images?

My first reaction was “no”, and then I thought that if we use AI tools to make a movie about AI, it will make it interesting! I came home and started writing. Basically, it’s a futuristic AI trying to talk to the last human survivor. Another note of mine: if we do this, we need to make sure that the narration is also AI. The audio consists of two AI-generated voices, male and female, which merge into a very confusing voice.

So each image is the result of Nier asking Midjourney to come up with something related to the story passage, so did it work?

yes I had to prescribe directions in the filming script. What images, what feelings should they evoke. Nir then sat for three whole days and generated 1,000 images. I don’t know how he didn’t go crazy. A lot of it had to do with getting the AI ​​to be in the right place. I think Nier used himself as a seed image for some of the human images.

We were really leaning towards the “uncanny valley” aspect. So every image is wrong in some way. My favorite snippet is what I wrote about these rabbits, where the AI ​​tries to calm the human by showing images of rabbits. And it’s so disturbing! The idea is that the AI ​​tries to do its best, but never gets it right.

What worries you about AI? Are you, as a writer, worried that this will encroach on your territory?

There is no creativity in these AI systems. They have to be directed to something, they cannot come up with anything new. I don’t worry about any other writer on the planet, I don’t worry all the time that I’m competing with 8 billion people who can write better than me, because the only thing you can bring to any kind of art is yourself. This is a unique point of view. But these tools do not.

There are legitimate concerns about corporations using artificial intelligence instead of human artists to save money. But from a creative point of view, it’s nothing more than a tool that we need to use, and we had to really work with it to try and get the effect we wanted.

Do you have plans for other similar projects with Midjourney?

No, but I think he was fun to play with. I thought the result was really interesting and we wanted to join the conversation while it was going on because it moves so fast.

The worry is that if you can be replaced by a machine, you will be replaced by a machine. But people said the same thing about the camera. They said the same about Photoshop and we still need artists and we still need people to bring that unique perspective.

It will take time to adapt, but we are far from the true general artificial intelligence that is in the film. I just wanted to talk – and I see this with AI scientists as well – that AI is going to take over the world and destroy humanity. It feels like a sci-fi version of the 1970s disaster movie future to me. In any case, any developing AI will depend very much on people.

So I wanted to talk about the idea that the AI ​​is just trying to help, and maybe doing it so disastrously wrong. The film does not suggest that it was the AI ​​that caused the destruction of the planet. Humans did it, and AI kind of misses them.