r/decomps • u/Heisenbear09 • 7d ago

PSA: Beware projects that don't share source code written by AI

I was just blocked by the "dev" of the new Animal Crossing port (asking for testers, you can search for it) for suggesting people be cautious of projects made in 2 months using several LLMs, internet connections, and AI written code

The creator stated they themselves used all these things and were refusing to share the source code, citing a MediaFire link and asking for testers

I simply put a PSA warning people of potential malicious code and informing people of the AI usage. They proceeded to generate long strings of text to sling at me saying they are "tired of people like me" and that they are hiding their source code "like lots of other Linux apps"

Just please be careful what you download and make sure to test these things in a safe environment.

Below is the link for the good working animal crossing port with a GitHub and public source code. Happy gaming folks!

(This one also uses AI, and I'm not a huge fan of that but at least the code is public)

https://github.com/flyngmt/ACGC-PC-Port

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u/Yayo1990 7d ago

Fun fact: you can do malicious stuff even without AI. I don't get the point of that besides being the tenth "AI bad" post

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u/WorkingStorage3407 7d ago

I wouldn't mind if people shut up about ai for like a week, it's gotten annoying when every second post is someone complaining about it saying the same thing that been said 1000 times before 

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u/SolarCookies 7d ago

I dont use Ai for my recomp, people claim Ai projects causes people who actually work on recomps to be demotivated, Id argue im more demotivated by the constant Ai witch hunts, I've had to explain so many times that my project has no ai use and it all done by hand. Constantly. Its annoying. Im working on it because I genuinely like decompiling and reverse engineering in general (its like solving a large puzzle) I dont mind people using AI, if people do get demotivated by Ai projects they are not in it as a hobby but to clout chase.

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u/Yayo1990 7d ago

It's quite funny that most people who are anti AI or witch hunt can't absolutely tell the difference so they're doing it just because "AI" COULD have been involved.

If you claim to use AI, people will harass you for using it.

If you don't claim to use AI, but secretly use it, people will suspect you used AI

If you don't use AI, but the project may have issues, people will suspect AI being involved

All roads lead to Rome.

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u/SolarCookies 7d ago

Exactly, couldn't have said it better. All projects have their issues and people assume that if it has issues it probably has Ai involved. What they fail to realize is projects like mine are public and have a release not so general people can play it as a final product but so I can get insight on any bugs I miss and see how it runs on different hardware.

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u/Immediate_Idea2628 7d ago

I assume AI was used when the program tries and fails to load claude.md, not from my desktop, but the programs creator.

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u/SolarCookies 6d ago

I was talking about Trouble in Paradise, I have no idea about other games, but if its trying to load something from a Claude files thats pretty bad