At the same time game dev competitions and showcases are being shutdown because “all the AI slop”. I agree with you completely but I also know there’s going to be a lot more noise as people try.

someone has to pay for the bandwith

> does not run on mobile, only computers, not Firefox

IE 6 is calling...

How's your startup doing?

Wouldn't that mean that the assets can be downloaded and with AI, one can piece all pieces together and make your own copy that works offline?

If AI gets good enough eventually it'll be able to reverse engineer whole games from video recordings. Worst case scenario, you hook it up to the game and have it fill in any missing gaps of its video-based implementation.

The people who love video games will keep doing it and the market will adapt. Maybe it'll cause a revival of arcades or interactive theater experiences. Maybe some games will only be playable from gaming cafes with special hardware requirements, in order to guarantee there's no cheating.

there is already enough high quality games to last couple of lifetimes.

Do you think people are going to buy it? All the money in the world didn't make people buy Stadia.

I guess if there is no other way of playing good games, but I find that hard to believe.

ChatGPT, when was GTA V cracked.

- Grand Theft Auto V (GTA 5) for PC was cracked in April 2015, launching almost immediately—on the same day as the official PC release—by the Chinese cracking group 3DM (version 1.24)

It was coming anyways, hardware is too expensive the next consoles would be $1k+

Everything will be streamed and locked behind subscriptions, as god intended

I don’t think this is necessarily true.

Pirated games have always existed. Pirated versions of GTA 5 have been around for years.

Like GabeN said…piracy is a service issue not a price issue.

"article" it's just copy pasted Claude output lol

It absolutely does, and will be used and enforced by those who want to protect their IP. Within the existing frameworks.

Let's no go down the rabbit hole of "since it's easier now, we need new laws..." to make new laws and regulations about what AI coding can and can't do when the existing copyright laws work perfectly well.

edit: Want to decomp/recomp a game and modify it and change it so you have more fun? Go right ahead. Have a blast. Want to then publish that? You don't have the right to republish their materials without permission. If you do, the owner can run the math of how much it damages them to decide if they pursue it. We don't need the AI generator to police that for us.

considering how AI models were/are created, not really, no.

"Information wants to be free"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free

OpenAI/Anthropic et al killed it

Copyright is not really criminal law, so companies have to sue people and it's relatively easy to be anonymous enough on the internet for that threat model, and you can't successfully sue someone if you don't know who they are.

Yeah, piracy is doing better than ever. FMHY shows the entire ecosystem—it's huge: https://fmhy.net/

This will be taken down though if Rockstar tries to because dot coms are not DMCA resistant.

At the end of the day, copyright is trying to constrain information which is not easy on the internet.

ps: For the creator, add your website to https://donatemonero.org

I don't understand how it hasn't been taken down yet.

Not since cell division started.

"possession is nine-tenths of the law"

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Try pressing space/enter. Though to be fair, it's now on the front page and loads something like 800MB of assets, so it may be getting hugged to death.

It froze on FireFox but on Chrome it seems to be working OK

Yes that's what OpenAI/Anthropic/Facebook/Google etc does