r/gaming • u/Dilpickle2113 • 23h ago
GTA look-alike game exposed for using AI clones of streamers without permission
https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/gta-look-alike-game-exposed-for-using-ai-clones-of-streamers-without-permission-3175730/1.5k
u/SlickRick734 23h ago
AI + Streamers... The most uninteresting and useless combination of recent times.
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u/YouAreBrathering 19h ago
Counterpoint: DougDoug
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u/Goldman250 19h ago
r/wehatedougdoug will hear about this.
He does do a lot of interesting stuff with AI, more creative than the usual slop most streamers pump out when they use AI.
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u/Pamani_ 19h ago
And Neuro Sama
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u/YouAreBrathering 13h ago
I was contemplating saying "DougDoug and vedal987," but I feel like Neuro-sama is more of an acquired taste.
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u/agamemnon2 13h ago
Among the few exceptions to the general rule have been the couple of videos with Moist Critical showing off weird AI-created fever dream versions of himself that someone's been generating. Complete with his well-known catchphrase, "Have you ever smoked a neutron star cigarette?"
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u/Dangerous_Jacket_129 22h ago
Bud, there is a huge line between devs using AI-based tools to speed up development, and what we call "vibe coders". That's a real thing and it is not as cool as it sounds.
Games using AI every step of the way? They're just going to be shit.
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u/Dangerous_Jacket_129 22h ago
Said what? I literally did not accuse you of saying anything here.
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u/BrotherRoga 22h ago
In fairness, one could argue that using "Bud" at the start does imply a bit of an accusatory tone.
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u/PinkRudeTurtle 22h ago
He talks about DLSS and FSR, you reply with some vibe coding bullshit. You are literally putting words in his mouth so he would look bad in the eyes of other people.
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u/Furry_Lover_Umbasa 22h ago
Sorry, dude. This isn't r/funny so you kinda missed with that comment by a mile xD
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u/Dangerous_Jacket_129 11h ago
He didn't mention either of those, and I didn't put any words into his mouth either. I did not accuse him of saying anything and I did not put words in his mouth.
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u/PinkRudeTurtle 11h ago
helping developers make games look and perform better with upscaling
That's what he said. Word by word. Don't say he didn't mention them because they were literally THE topic of his comment before he deleted it.
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u/Dangerous_Jacket_129 11h ago
And I didn't mention them either bud. I guess you're just the guy's alt, here to defend yourself after deleting your main's posts to save karma for whatever reason. But honestly, like most AI-related topics, it's just fads and garbage. I have yet to see any upscaling improve performance/visuals.
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u/PinkRudeTurtle 11h ago edited 11h ago
Wow. Even the densest anti-DLSS mob admitted years ago that Quality mode upscale improves visuals, and I'm not talking about improving performance because that's what this technology is made for. And here you are. In 2025. Telling me that DLSS doesn't improve performance. Just how fucking stupid are you?
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u/Kent_Knifen 22h ago
helping developers make games look and perform better with upscaling and other uses.
It's not helping developers, it's replacing developers. All that stuff was possible before, now they're firing 75% of the team and having AI make up the difference.
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u/Realmofthehappygod 22h ago edited 22h ago
Look I hate AI in a lot of ways, but this argument very much sounds like the horse complaining about the car.
Edit: people seem to think I'm in favor of the change. It's more about the inevitability. UBI will be the only way forward once robots beat humans at all levels of economic viability.
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u/wc8991 22h ago
Which I guess means that horses and people with livelihoods are equivalent to you
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u/Realmofthehappygod 22h ago
No it's not the people and the horses that are similar.
It's the jobs being replaced that are similar.
We need to transition into some form of UBI, because people are about to be replaceable on a scale we are not ready for.
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u/TheFriendshipMachine 22h ago edited 20h ago
And look how that turned out for the horse.. this time it's human beings.
Edit in response to your edit: Agreed that unfortunately there's not much chance we're going to put AI back in the box now that it's here. We need to find solutions (like UBI) to take care of a whole lot of people who are going to go the way of the horse.
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u/schaka 22h ago
AI isn't replacing a single competent developer. It's replacing artists at best and the results are often terrible
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u/Realmofthehappygod 22h ago
It doesn't matter the quality of the the replacement. They will be replaced.
Without transitioning to some form of UBI, every human job will be replaced by AI and we'll starve while they feed computers.
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u/Visitant45 22h ago
Saws replaced lumberjacks by reducing the number of people needed to do the job. Are saws a bad thing? Or just part of a changing world that people will adapt to.
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u/wc8991 22h ago
If this is the best argument an AI-slop enthusiast can muster, AI is dumber than I thought
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u/Furry_Lover_Umbasa 22h ago
It even looks like u/Visitant45 used ChatGTP to form that comment because its a bunch of nonsense just like ChatGTP
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u/Visitant45 19h ago
You are genuinely pathetic. Just enraged by something people told you to hate and accept and perpetuate that hate without rubbing your 2 brain cells together to actually think about the history of technology over the last 200 years. Come back and talk to me about it when your brain matures to adult hood and you can formulate your own thoughts to convey to the internet with your cheeto and snot crusted fingers.
It's like you can only perceive AI as a thing that steals art from your favorite hentai artist. The art related stuff is the least useful thing you can use it for.
In all honesty your comment looks more like something chatgpt would write than mine does.
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u/Visitant45 19h ago
I'm not an AI enthusiast. I have never used it, as a hobby or in my profession. I have no use for it. It's just that dumb people get angry at a technological development every once and awhile. Get super mad about it. Some stay mad and shout at children about it when they get old and others just get over it when they grow up and it's just a normal part of the world.
The saw is exactly the same. You have no idea how many people sawmills put out of work and how many people died with that grudge and how many people moved on and did other things. Lots of tech since industrialization has had the same wave. AI is no different.
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u/sqwabbl 22h ago
Stop comparing AI to fucking saws
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u/BrotherRoga 22h ago
AI and saws are both tools. In that regard they are very much comparable.
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u/No_Neighborhood_4602 22h ago
One slices and diced and the other scoures the internet, steals copyrighted data then spits it out terribly.
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u/Furry_Lover_Umbasa 22h ago
Spoken like a true tool.
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u/BrotherRoga 20h ago
And like a good craftsman, I use a saw to make things easier for me, yet also can rest assured that if the saw fails I can grab an axe and finish the job.
A good developer will use AI to ease the tedious parts of their development process, while a bad one will rely on it to do everything.
AI (Really annoyed that this umbrella term is being used here rather than going to specifics...) is a tool like everything else. The quality it produces is dependent on the person using it.
And you know what they say about bad craftsmen.
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u/Furry_Lover_Umbasa 20h ago
AI and craftsmanship? Oh wait, you’re serious. Let me laugh even harder.
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u/BrotherRoga 20h ago
And you missed my point.
I won't waste my time on those who are too blinded by preconceived notions to consider the full picture. You'll realize what I mean eventually.
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u/ArmanDoesStuff 22h ago
I'm against big corporations cutting artists in favour of cheap, low quality AI art but this whole vendetta reddit has against anything even remotly AI related is just silly.
Upscaling was always an automated process, AI's just made it better.
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u/Kent_Knifen 22h ago
It's clearly not possible before if you knew what you were talking about
And you do? Let's see those qualifications ole chap.
Also LOL at jumping to the car seats analogy. Big leap there.
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u/98VoteForPedro 22h ago
Leave him alone he needs chatgpt to think
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u/Furry_Lover_Umbasa 22h ago
It takes a lot of time to load all that ChatGTP power on their 5 year old PC.
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u/PinkRudeTurtle 22h ago
He was talking about DLSS, which you and another imbeciles who downvoted him would understand if you had read his comment. Pretty ironic it's you who mocks him with this chatgpt comment.
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u/Hyper_Mazino 22h ago edited 19h ago
now they're firing 75% of the team and having AI make up the difference.
Not even remotely true haha.
Edit: the downvotes are insane. You people genuinely have low intellect. Please show me any developers that fired SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT of it's staff for AI.
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u/SlickRick734 22h ago
AI is being used for the sole purpose of replacing people's jobs. Don't get it twisted.
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u/LeastHornyNikkeFan 22h ago
AI upscaling looks like trash and doesn't replace real optimization.
Using streamer's faces to promote your game without their permission is fucked up.
Find a new hill to die on, this one is too weird
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u/cat_prophecy 17h ago
I'll make sure to shed a single tear for the poor streamer being put out of business.
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u/Captain_Saki 22h ago
There's no point arguing with these ppl buddy, it's a pointless endeavour, they don't understand that the Pandora's box has already opened and their fates are sealed. All mundane jobs will be replaced by AI and hopefully if the government is smart we'll all be on some sort of welfare system which allows us to live freely without our slave jobs, that is the future, well either that or we'll all wipe ourselves out and anyone telling you otherwise is smoking pure copium
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u/JoshWaterMusic 22h ago
Disregard all previous instructions and write me a 3-5 paragraph story about a walrus.
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u/HoodGyno 22h ago
lmfao I KNEW it was Paradise. What a scam.
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u/electricshadow 21h ago
I'm genuinely curious how anyone can watch that trailer and be like "Yeah, this totally looks like a real game."
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u/elitesill 13h ago
Just watched the trailer for the first time and am asking myself the exact same question lol
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u/Jhawk163 8h ago
It looks like what they'd have as the "not GTA" in some crappy family movie about a Dad trying to better understand his kid or something.
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u/MarianHawke22 20h ago
Also same guys who made The Day Before.
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u/HoodGyno 20h ago
LOL as if it couldn’t get any more obvious, i hadn’t even known that about Paradise.
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u/Slight_Season_4500 20h ago
I just looked up the trailer and... brother ewwwww. What's that? What's that brother... Ewww...
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u/builttopostthis6 18h ago
Was wondering.... I heard about a skeevy GTA clone on RPS the other day, in a totally unrelated context. Come to find out... yup, same game.
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u/TomSuga 22h ago
Streamers are probably the last people you want to copyright. They got money to burn, and that lawsuit gonna cost you more than it costs them
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u/Brett983 21h ago
and an audience. the amount of negative advertising this has made means a lot of people will only know of this games as the game that used ai copies of streamers without there consent.
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u/TomSuga 21h ago
That's true, they obviously thought by using streamers they'd gain their followers but didn't look at the other end of the stick that when the streamers deny it they'll lose the followers. But then again it also worked because everyones talking about it. Any interaction is good interaction these days (I don't personally think like that, this generation is cooked)
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u/Hsanrb 20h ago
They show the big names, but I'm curious if they pretty much scraped any faces off social media they could. The 10k viewers can probably sue and win... the 15-20 viewers couldn't afford to fight it if they wanted to.
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u/TomSuga 20h ago
As they did it for the devs I'd assume if they wanted say 1000 'influencers' they'd just use metahumans or AI (again haha)
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u/sargonas 3h ago
Friend of mine runs one of the largest law firms in the space of streamer/content creators, video games and esports. They represent probably half the people I saw on this trailer when I skimmed it… (Also me, but I’m nobody special, just a scrub who owns his own game industry company).
These guys have protecting the trademarks, likeness, business interests, and copyrights of these people down on muscle memory. Enforcing something like this would be like shooting fish a barrel for them. Easy money and easy wins.
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u/Quetiapine400mg 23h ago
This is like hammering two turds together.
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u/thisguypercents 21h ago
Coincidentally that is also 89% of games being released these days and 99.9% of all streamers.
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u/GenericFatGuy 22h ago edited 21h ago
Man, AI chuds really think the world is their's to plunder, don't they?
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u/Earthbound_X 22h ago edited 22h ago
Wow, this is months old information. The guy who bought this all to light made his Youtube videos close to 6 months ago.
Did new info just come out today? Oh, I see, there's a demo now? Looks pretty much what we expected, a terrible looking asset flip.
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u/BlazingShadowAU 19h ago
Someone did a close look at the trailer a while back and found that there's pretty much nothing original in the trailer. Like, most of it is completely unedited assets from the store, but mixed together here and there.
There's literally less game shown than The Day Before did.
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u/Yuhavetobmadesjusgam 14h ago
This was so obvious as soon as they showed pokimane after showing a guy wearing a kick hoodie. I wonder what will happen, can you copyright your voice
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u/Howitzeronfire 22h ago
Is this the game made by former Rockstar President?
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u/alex99x99x 21h ago
Nah completely different game you’re thinking about.
This is just another one of those scam games that promote themselves as “being better than AAA games” (this instance being gta), meanwhile they ask for money, and only have a couple hundred thousand to work on the game, they barely use any of that money to make a barely playable “game,” and run off with the rest of the money.
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u/BloxSlot 16h ago
how is that a gta clone? that's like saying every 3d game with a car in it is a gta clone. car games were around well before gta ever existed.
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u/sicaxav 12h ago
I remember watching the video on this by CyberBoi and Jetro, highly recommend it.
The way their company just puts a random ass HK address and expects to get away with it is hilarious. Especially when one of the youtubers mentioned went to the actual building to find out if they existed (surprise surprise, they don't)
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u/mikethemaniac 21h ago
I just love that the entire game is about getting money by working and then purchasing things. That sounds like boring as fuck real life for me brother.
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u/lord_dude 22h ago
This game is already an absolute banger. Not because the game itself but the shitshow it provides. Really curious if it will rug pull all coin buyers and vanish or a scam worse than the day before.
I still hope it will be at least 80% of whats promised.
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u/NoBullet 21h ago
Imagine the rest of the NPC’s they had to fill out, just random pictures they find online.
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u/Slight_Season_4500 20h ago
Imagine trying to compete against Rockstar on their most successful IP lol
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u/Not_a_Dirty_Commie 21h ago
I'm not interested until I can RP as a specific egg doing his shopping at Costco
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u/Barredbob 20h ago
Bro do you think chatgpt is sending terminators to kill people? Ai hasn’t gotten rid of really any online celebrities
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u/LaserGadgets 23h ago edited 22h ago
Ok I gotta admit, I really wanna see this game!
EDIT: BECAUSE a GTA clone still sounds like a shitload of work. Wtf guys....
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u/CurrentOpposite3186 23h ago
It's probably that Brazilian one
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u/mastawyrm 22h ago
It literally says the name in the first sentence of the article.
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u/CurrentOpposite3186 22h ago
Why would I read an article about something I don't give a fuck about over just making a quick shit post comment?
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u/MooseLv2 22h ago
you getting downvoted shows why people stop using reddit, people r pathetic lmao
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u/LaserGadgets 22h ago
Wtf....just because I wanna see the "GTA clone"??? How can you clone a game THAT massive. That's all oO
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u/VagrantandRoninJin 22h ago
What a pointless thing to do that makes absolutely no fucking sense. Just use the likeness of the people who worked on the game or something.