Meanwhile, we now have direct reports of reverse engineering efforts being blocked, while online complaints grow.

My how fast the AI tech bros move to protect corporations but don’t move to protect the average coder, artists, writers.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 days ago

    To those who say “but what about game preservation?”:

    GenAI slop ruined communities around game preservation. And for every time a AAA dev getting this treatment, there’s at least 3 indies getting it worse.

    • starelfsc2@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      11 days ago

      Yep a lot of decomps just get a slop coded version and people stop caring about it because the slop version is “good enough.” Most people doing the decomps it’s also a hobby project that they’re doing for fun as well, the end goal is just a bonus.

      • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 days ago

        There’s already a meme that a lot of those decomps are just emulators + ROMs in a single repository.