The creator of one of the most popular Total War: Warhammer III mods ever has deliberately corrupted it so that it will no longer work with “unauthorized reuploads,” amid a row over the rights and wrongs of AI-generated modifications.

The creator of one of the most popular Total War: Warhammer III mods ever has deliberately corrupted it so that it will no longer work with “unauthorized reuploads,” amid a row over the rights and wrongs of AI-generated modifications.

    • Grimy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6426·
      2 days ago

      That’s not what’s happening here though.

      Recently, people have used AI to release sub mods of SFO: Grimhammer III that work with updated versions of the main

      It’s people building mods that need his framework from what I understand, not contributing to his codebase with it. No harm done except to his ego.

      Crazy to get downvoted just for pointing out the guy didn’t even read the article. Get a grip.

      • Skua@kbin.earth
        47·
        2 days ago

        It looks like the article itself is being a bit misleading; the actual statement doesn’t mention submods at all, but re-uploads of the original mod. Digging a bit further, it seems like the author is updating the mod to work on the game’s most recent patch, and while he is doing that a bunch of people have used AI to update the mod to that patch and uploaded it wholesale as if it were their own work

      • FarceOfWill@infosec.pubEnglish
        219·
        2 days ago

        This looks like some classic vintage modder drama with someone claiming only they can use what they publish, for a game the makers let them make mods for.

        Just more so as ai means so many people can get involved and make that molehill into a really, really big mountain.

        • Pratai@piefed.caEnglish
          215·
          2 days ago

          No, it’s someone protecting the work they did because a bunch of hacks steal it, modify it with AI and submit it as their own work.

      • funkydutch@feddit.nlEnglish
        137·
        2 days ago

        Seems to be a common theme with modders and since way before AI. It’s weird.

    • terabyterex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      716·
      2 days ago

      nope. this is the tale as ols as time, modder is an emotionally unstable twat that through a fit because he is not in control of the world.

        • terabyterex@lemmy.worldEnglish
          93·
          2 days ago

          yes i did

          Recently, people have used AI to release sub mods of SFO: Grimhammer III that work with updated versions of the main, Creative Assembly-developed video game, without asking permission. In response, Venris corrupted their own mod so that it stops working with these uploads, and threatened to make SFO: Grimhammer III private.

          there were mods that used his mod and dudnt affect him in any way

          • Pratai@piefed.caEnglish
            92·
            2 days ago

            It does effect him when they use shit AI and fuck it up- as people will blame him because his fucking name is all over it.

            I’ll tell you what, give me some shit you created. Just, let me have it do so with whatever I please. And I promise if it’s bad, it’ll point directly to you.

            That sound cool?

            • 9bananas@feddit.orgEnglish
              11·
              1 day ago

              in all honesty: this is an error reporting problem.

              way too many games with modding support have piss-poor error reporting that makes it insanely difficult for inexperienced users to figure out what exactly went wrong, so they blame the first mod that the log shows…which is usually some framework or other large mod, since those, by their very nature, come up a LOT in the logs.

              this exact problem is decades old and has fuckall to do with AI, and everything to do with devs of (officially) moddable games not providing proper troubleshooting methods to their userbase.