{"id":135875,"date":"2026-01-30T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-196853"},"modified":"2026-01-30T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:45:00","slug":"googles-project-genie-is-basically-a-huge-plagiarism-tool-so-when-will-nintendos-legal-ninjas-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/30\/googles-project-genie-is-basically-a-huge-plagiarism-tool-so-when-will-nintendos-legal-ninjas-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Google’s ‘Project Genie’ Is Basically A Huge Plagiarism Tool, So When Will Nintendo’s Legal Ninjas Strike?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Google \u2013 a company so addicted to AI it’s pushing it into places it’s simply not wanted<\/a> \u2013 has just lifted the lid on Project Genie, a new Generative AI tool which is able to create playable ‘gaming worlds’ thanks to the fact that it has been trained (without permission, on the most part) on the billions of hours of footage that has been uploaded by users to YouTube over the decades.<\/p>\n

As was discovered when OpenAI released its Sora video creation tool a while back<\/a>, it’s laughably easy to get Project Genie to spit out copyright-infringing footage.<\/p>\n

As highlighted by Kotaku<\/a>, The Verge’s Jay Peters<\/a> \u2013 who has been given early access to the tool \u2013 has gleefully posted that he was able to “generate a bunch of Nintendo-inspired games. Including one featuring Link with a paraglider!” The footage, as you can clearly see, is so close to Breath of the Wild<\/a> it’s almost<\/em> funny.<\/p>\n