Playdate maker Panic bans generative AI art, music, and writing from its Catalog storefront, while allowing coding tools like GitHub Copilot with disclosure

Doe v. GitHub (Copilot training data) and Andersen v. Stability (image gen) rest on nearly identical legal theories, so Panic's split — code assistant with disclosure, zero genAI for art/music — is a bet on which precedent lands first. NFT marketplaces already lost this fight: OpenSea quietly delisted thousands of AI-flooded collections through 2024 without publishing a coherent policy, because at marketplace scale "no genAI" becomes computationally undetectable. A 400x240 pixel storefront with human review might be one of the few venues small enough to enforce this.

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