On one hand, it's exciting tech [old] news. On the other, people who play competitive games must hope for a solution against abuse. The rest of us must hope it isn't an invasive solution such as, what effectively is, kernel malware.
I like to think this crowd is above typical streamer hysteria, but I guess not?
AlphaStar and OpenAI have nothing to do with the conversation here, right off the bat.
This video is so cringey too with random burps and "skynet" references. The external hosting is not related at all to the "soft" cheating, and that in turn has nothing to do with AI. Packet sniffing vs OpenCV vs Tensorflow for finding a head is not a meaningful difference.
Years ago, and I mean years ago cheat developers were building this type of "soft aim" cheats that don't snap.
And the separate input via controller _is_ detectable if this becomes enough of an issue... your "AI" is generating input and it often will generate input that controllers wouldn't. Because the "AI" is ML and only being applied to finding on screen targets.
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Making a second model to generate realistic input would be a whole other achievement no one has even bothered with because... they don't need to.
On-host hacking is rampant and these games can't seem to stop it, so no one has bothered.
I'd be for kernel-level anti-cheat if it actually worked, but script kiddies are beating this "kernel level anti-cheat" handily.
To me the answer is boring simple statistical analysis, increasing the cost of recovering from bans, etc...
But that doesn't sound as sexy so I guess we can keep this farce of a cat and mouse game going.
Skill tunable AI, developed by a private poorly funded group, that plays the game for you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=revk5r5vqxA
AlphaStar, developed by a large corp, mopping the floor with Battle.Net's Starcraft 2 players https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1zhmGPmAAM
OpenAI, developed by a large corp, beats top DotA2 team https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfb6aEUMC04
On one hand, it's exciting tech [old] news. On the other, people who play competitive games must hope for a solution against abuse. The rest of us must hope it isn't an invasive solution such as, what effectively is, kernel malware.