Got an idea, decided to give claude a few examples from itch so it had something besides my vague explanations to go off of. Fully expected it to choke on the kink a la c.ai, but no. It clarified in one of the question hooks whether WG would still be the core kink of my game, and then went on about how to numerically represent a character who is going along with the feedee thing only for the sake of their relationship with the player.
It was then that I realized how worried I was about being judged about this kink by a toaster.
I can see that making sense because it is code focused. they probably spent less time on guardrails since people would be less inclined to ask it how to make bombs or roleplay it sitting on the users face
“I fed a bunch of other people’s work to the plagiarism machine and was more worried about the plagiarism box judging me then the people I stole from.”
In fact, using Claude Code and Codex to develop game mods works very well. For example, for the CK3 mod discussed on the forum earlier, Codex can be used directly to fix the mod
Just remember name control, or you’re going to have Marcus Chen and Derek Kowalski fattening up Yuki Tanaka and Elara Voss every single time. These toasters ain’t creative.
I actually agree with you that LLMs (I refuse to call them AI) are a cancer built on plagiarism, but I also feel like the damage has been done. To call inspiration plagiarism is like using the term Doom clone unironically in the year of our Lord 2026. There are very few truly novel mechanics in gaming nowadays, so using an exemplar for one that I want to build off of is just shortcutting the drudgery.
That said, I do intend to put my money where my mouth is and open source my game, with credit given to inspirations, with links to those games on itch. I’m not a monster.
Realistically, decompilers exist for every language, so someone determined can get a version of your source that an LLM can then work with. Releasing software is like releasing any other form of art in that you have live with with folks interpolating your work into their own.
Unrealistically, you could make your game only playable through a cloud host you control, that way the executable is never actually released, but people can still play the game. This would be hilariously expensive, though, but if interpolation really bugs you then its the only surefire means of prevention I can think of.
I never called inspiration Plagiarism. And you never called what you were doing inspiration either.
So maybe stow that shit.
I am just calling you out on that you were worried more about the opinion of autocomplete’s evil cousin and not about any of the coders who’s work you were feeding into Anthropic’s Data base without consent.
The comparison to a decompiler is either deceptive or misinformed. I encourage you to try them yourself on some software first. And “some damage is already done, so I might as well participate” is not a sentiment I can get morally behind.
Going back to LLMs/GANs/etc., the processes in courts are still ongoing. So it’s not decided whether using open source projects as input for an LLM is OK for training, and will most likely depend on the original license. When it comes to most games however, they are rarely ever open sourced. Usually the developers don’t mind people poking around their projects, to see how things were done. That however doesn’t give you permission to do as you please with it.
In practice, if you feed that to an LLM, you’re likely just going to get the shuffled around amalgamation of their projects, which, in my opinion, is not much different from manually copying parts of other games and putting them in your project.
Moreover you feed LLM other people’s project source code and explicitly asked for something similar, without asking for permission. I don’t know how you can come to a conclusion that that’s fine.
as someone who programs sometimes. vibecoding isn’t really ideal but if you just want something and aren’t too fussed about code quality it can work
hell even I do it sometimes when I wanna write useful stuff for myself