Anthropic Cracking Down on Video Game Rewrites

andsoitis

Assuming this is true (I believe it is unconfirmed), why limit to games?

faryoppo

yeah your right.we better act now

throwaway27448

Hard to imagine this is actually a concern for game makers. Decompilation aside, AI can only produce shallow visual mimicry. If you were to actually try to enjoy these games you'd be miserable nearly instantly. Rookie move to fight this legally! What replaces it actually will be engaging and competitive. Palworld is just the beginning....

mgdev

Can you imagine a devtools company deciding, "Actually, no, we're going to police what kind of programs you can compile" ? They need to decide of AI is a technology or an ideology. We cannot afford to blend the two, or we're going to end up as some kind of perverted global theocracy.

Geof25

So people will be running reverse engineering through openrouter and similar or local inference while Anthropic is severely crippling cyber security usefulness of their products. Feels like own goal.

drunner

Anthropic (and others) mass harvested source code from around the internet while ignoring licenses to build their product. That's of course allowed (by them). Using the trained model to create certain types of software that they already harvested, not allowed? What's the difference between having the model make a game and writing any other software? It's like trying to say you can only use our model to write new stories but not fanfiction when they trained the model on the original works which would allow the fanfiction to be produced in the first place.

koskokos

I see where they are coming from but I was really hoping for a surge of labour of love open source abandonware recreations.

DavCreator

https://xxcancel.com/chasmmmmmmmmmmm/status/2116062991686721...

aizk

What a wonderful day for open source models.

ThatMedicIsASpy

Hide random comments in my code so usAI says it won't touch it?

m4rtink

So we are going from running your stuff from cloud that randomly closes accounts or charges ridiculous costs to pinpointing arbitrary AI use cases and banning them on a whim. I guess that's progress !? Indeed, cloud == other peoples computers, with all what it entails.

drivebyhooting

Mark my words: AI will only be allowed to destroy the software engineering profession, but somehow protectionism will be enforced for everything else in the name of “safety” and “fairness”.

umvi

Easy to see the slippery slope from "safety" to "DRM". Abliterated/open models will become increasingly important for AI freedom if they aren't made illegal first...

giwook

Open models become more and more appealing by the day.

123l-aa

They steal from everyone else, but closed source companies are protected. The new copyright applies if you are worth more than $1 billion. Everything else is public domain! It is unimaginable that people on this very site use the products of a company that is worse than Oracle and Microsoft combined. EDIT: Why the downvotes, Anthropic people? I didn't say that Amodei's wife was public domain.

philipkglass

The most important secret of the atomic bomb was that it could be built at all. That's the same way I feel about Anthropic's products (increasingly, tech demos rather than products, if you go off the happy path.) They've demonstrated what is possible. Now I'm hoping for a fistful of rivals to build functional equivalents. I'm still an Anthropic customer but in the long run I'm going to be using services that align with my interests. I want a provider that won't nerf or refuse requests around software security, building LLM training pipelines, the natural sciences, and reverse engineering. Anthropic is useful as a transitional bootloader for developing and demonstrating LLM technology broadly but each new safety "enhancement" makes it look more dispensable.

pelagicAustral

NOOOOO my Battlefield 2 in JS!!! NOOO

bushido

They can't help themselves but play the Don't be evil[0] in fast-forward. They pretty much write the case for why open weights and open source models need to win. The amount of policing that Claude does is pretty problematic. I'd written about this recently, but it won't even sign in during some browser tests on my local system for authentication which goes to my local system because it's built into its programming now. I literally can't use it on some long horizon work. The reason I mentioned that here is it deems that as problematic behavior, and nothing I can give it will change its mind. I feel like with video game development, it is going to do something of the same. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil

hmokiguess

How can something that provably cannot create and only recycle follow such instructions. The training data contains such originals, if you don't want it recycling those then purge the commercial data you stole and provide original data yourself.

lrvick

I wonder how long before people figure out that you can run alliterated models locally on consumer hardware capable of doing all this without help from Sam or Dario.