There's been a trend to post LLM slop about tech subjects and they anger me - I don't know why someone wanted to waste people's time like that.
Even worse - I've come across an AI slop site that masquerades as dev information, with just plain wrong information.
It totally misrepresents what Micropolis is, which was based on the original SimCity classic, and confuses it with all the subsequent versions of SimCity and other made-up stuff. And it never mentions the GPL-3 license, EA's license and restrictions on the use of their SimCity trademark, or Micropolis's license to use their trademark. I have no idea what the point of it is.
https://micropolisonline.com/source-code/
>How to Access the Source Code: For those eager to explore the Micropolis Online Source Code, it is available on our dedicated GitHub repository. Visit [Link] to access the repository, where you can browse the code, contribute to ongoing projects, or initiate your own.
The source code is actually not at [Link] but at:
https://github.com/SimHacker/MicropolisCore
Not even so much as a link to the my demo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8snnqQSI0GE
They could be in some legal jepordy since they didn't mention or link to the Micropolis GPL License or the Micropolis Public Name License, which they may be violating.
https://github.com/SimHacker/MicropolisCore/blob/main/Microp...
https://github.com/SimHacker/MicropolisCore/blob/main/Microp...
The have a "Meet the Team" page that mentions nobody, just hand waves about "we" and the community. They couldn't even bother to generate generic looking fake profiles of non-existent people. Suffice it to say I never heard back from anyone after using the "Contact Us" page.
They even have a cute little Terms and Conditions page with their very own license, which doesn't allow anyone to do to them what they did to me, and is not particularly GPL-v3 compatible:
https://micropolisonline.com/terms-conditions/
>License to Use Micropolis Online
>Unless otherwise stated, Micropolis Online and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material on Micropolis Online. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may view and/or print pages from micropolisonline.com for your own personal use subject to restrictions set in these terms and conditions.
>You must not:
>Republish material from micropolisonline.com Sell, rent, or sub-license material from micropolisonline.com Reproduce, duplicate, or copy material from micropolisonline.com
They also claim all rights to all user created content:
>By displaying Your Content, you grant Micropolis Online a non-exclusive, worldwide irrevocable, sub-licensable license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate, and distribute it in any and all media.
Kind of ironic for an LLM to go around stealing people's content, then telling them that not only can't anyone copy it back, but it owns the rights to everything anyone else may contribute in the future.
