People Are Tricking Bots Into Stealing Disney and Nintendo IP to Raise Awareness About Design Theft

Fast Company
Dec 6, 2019 · 2 min read
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Photo: Parker Burchfield

By Steven Melendez

Online artists say unscrupulous T-shirt vendors are using bots to search social media for comments such as “I want that on a shirt.” When the bots find them, they quickly take images from the original posts and upload them to T-shirt marketplace sites without regard for…

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