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one of the second order effects of ai in romhacking and modding scenes is it is like a turbocharger for Annoying Guy Ruins The Project For Everyone, that happens to every mod project in human history

community projects like these were delicate enough and constantly falling apart with impossible to track drama every five minutes before people had access to the publish hundreds of lines of stolen code a day machine

i think this is gonna be the biggest issue and the hardest to navigate and repair, more than the code itself or many of these being low quality and unmaintained. the general lack of trust. communities even further at everyone's throats than we already were. teams are only gonna get more insular

genuinely hard to overstate how badly it’s damaged the whole retro scene’s vibe. everyone’s completely suspicious of everything now. the mood is rancid