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1. JSR_FDED · 1790958301 · focus · HN ↗

   You know what I’ve always thought? That playing WoW would become a lot more fun if there were lots of AI players

   1. btown · 1790959970 · focus · HN ↗

      Don't worry: the natural predator of AI botting, Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Rootkit, has your back. You may not like its methods, but it's fighting alongside you today, and you're going to learn to love it.

      1. jzemeocala · 1790960919 · focus · HN ↗

         for some reason im reminded of the old axiom "The Beatings will continue until morale improves"
      2. vlyan · 1790963096 · focus · HN ↗

         that can be trivially defeated by a second machine that analyzes the captured video feed and sends hardware keyboard+mouse inputs in response. won't be as capable as a bot that can read/write process memory, but will be undetectable client-side.

         1. fireant · 1791019631 · focus · HN ↗

            "Trivially" is relative. In the case of wow the standard way to do botting is to use the in-game lua scripting (normally used for UI addons) with more functionality unlocked. The difference between introspecting the whole game state and controlling the game in-process with good api vs running realtime visual model on the captured visual feed and using fake keyboard inputs is pretty large.

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