I have had an influx of these game decomps on my Instagram recently and was wondering why so many were appearing out of nowhere. Shortly after that influx, the open-sourcing Adobe Suit thing happened and again its on my feed. Most of these projects use AI to make it easier to decomply these things and understand why it was used but I am a bit worried about the implications. As in, will these decomps actually be stable? Will they be maintained? Will companies start lobbying for AI laws harder now, in a way it benefits them and not us?
I personally stay away from AI due to the many issues AI brings but I am a fan of people fighting big companies but is this the way to do it?
There seems to be a pattern of closed source software spawning open source equivalents, so I look at AI really just being an accelerant to this trend. Software companies are screwed.
Game companies may have more to stand on as they can claim copyright and trademark assets on their games. That said, the gaming industry is in a generational low and I don’t know how it can recover.