Amazon marketplace seller swipes procedurally generated art from an indy game developer
by Mark Frauenfelder from on (#4VS48)
A Reddit user named cleroth developed a "hex-based real-time strategy exploration game" called Marvora, "with elements from Dwarf Fortress and Civilization." Four years ago he posted a preview of procedurally generated biomes, which you can see here.
Today, cleroth discovered that an Amazon marketplace seller is using that image to sell Marvora Biomes umbrellas, Marvora Biomes antibacterial toilet seats, and Marvora Biomes bikinis. The Amazon Marketplace seller is no doubt using a bot to scrape image files, so it seems appropriate to use an image created procedurally, too.