Indie game storefront Itch.io went offline early Monday morning after what it described as a bogus phishing report. While the game store’s servers were still online during the outage, the domain for ...

The inundation of AI-generated slop on various media platforms increasingly risks making them unusable. It's an issue effecting everything from Spotify to indie games platforms like Itch.io ...

Popular indie game platform itch.io says its domain was briefly taken down for a few hours Monday morning thanks to an "AI-driven" phishing report spurred by the company behind Funko Pop figures.

“I kid you not, itch.io has been taken down by Funko because they use some trash ‘AI Powered’ Brand Protection Software called BrandShield that created some bogus Phishing report to our ...

You’ve reached your account maximum for followed topics. Itch.io was taken down due to a phishing report linked to Funko's AI brand protection software. The issue highlights the potential ...

In a tweet, Itch.io explained that its domain was disabled as a result of Funko using what it called “some trash ‘AI-powered’ brand protection software” from a company called BrandShield.

itch.io said Funko uses “some trash ‘AI Powered’ Brand Protection Software” that generated a “bogus Phishing report” about the itch.io site. This report was sent to itch.io’s domain ...

Brandshield claims to “detect digital counterfeits” according to their website, and it is likely a page on itch.io triggered a false-positive report from the AI-powered software. However ...

@itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar ...

Itch.io is back online after being down for several hours yesterday amid claims that its domain had been disabled after a "phishing report" was filed against it by Funko, using "AI-powered" brand ...

However, it was discovered that itch.io was falsely accused of being a phishing scam site by a service that uses AI to report a large number of cases, and the site was temporarily inaccessible.

Itch.io says Funko used AI software that falsely flagged it for phishing. The site was down for hours before it was restored.