Isn't this the point they were trying to make? The corporations already have that data, it comes with the platform.
The bit where you can use some of it for own purposes is not really the offending part.
It's offending because it's complicit with the dystopian mass surveillance. Encouraging of it even. "I can find my keys when I lose them, so it's fine that a single corporation knows where billions of people are and what they are doing"
I'm gonna steer clear of games that use ASCII graphics as that'd be too many games to think about. With that out of the way: Toby's Nose, A Dark Room, Kerkerkruip
What is different in this case is that large companies are very likely looking to replace artists with ai, which is a huge potential impact.
Piracy never had such risks
I think this will only happen if you could selectively replace parts within an image selectively and reliably. There are still major problems even in Photoshops genaI application. For example, it is not possible select the head of a person on a picture and then type "smile" to make the face smile. We might get there eventually.
Small bug - the text for +1 level is wrong past level 1. It uses the sapper text instead.