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Or rather - scanning assets in phantasy worlds and using the results for bot development. A bot, looking at the screen and using a Bluetooth keyboard for commands would be much less detectable.


> A bot, looking at the screen and using a Bluetooth keyboard for commands would be much less detectable.

this has been one of the preferred ways to go about cheating for some time; sometimes even with things like video-splitters way-back-when.

>Or rather - scanning assets in phantasy worlds and using the results for bot development

yeah but the thing with games is that the data is there, and often times trivial to deobfuscate -- and when you DO get to it, it's perfect 1:1 rather than trained AI best guesses; it's not some natural reality where a best-guest approximation is the best you can hope for.

The bar for bot development will surely drop further and further, but until efforts towards keeping The Data away from Mean Person are strengthened then the easiest way forward is through data mining.




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