AI is now able to decompile games and software in a matter of days. That's scary... but kind of exciting.

I wrote a blog post on the current trend of game decompilations using AI and where we’re going with this. It’s all very promising but oh boy are the implications scary.

  • VibeSurgeon@piefed.socialEnglish
    75·
    12 days ago

    Decompilation offers you the possibility of cutting out network-required features, if you dream a little bigger.

    • jaycifer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      253·
      12 days ago

      They’re not talking about individual features, they’re talking about locking the entire game behind a network (such as game streaming) so the game can’t be downloaded to be decompiled in the first place.

      • VibeSurgeon@piefed.socialEnglish
        51·
        12 days ago

        It’s been tried before, but the fundamental limitations on networking- not to mention the compute you have to spend in data centers to run it - makes it pretty unlikely to happen, especially as a means of preventing piracy.

        • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          52·
          11 days ago

          Aren’t we assuming the data center buildout is to monopolize compute and turn our home computing into dumb screens?

          That’s what I think the hyper scalers are planning, especially after the LLM bubble pops.

          • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            11 days ago

            nah, as a person living in central europe, which is supposed to be somewhat modern, i can tell you that to this day, i’ve never had internet speed greater than 1 MB / sec. that’s certainly not enough to live-stream games. and also my current ping is about ~100 ms i guess (am on mobile connectivity, no cable where i live).