Discussion
I had a terrifying realization that I haven't looked at what's happening to speedrunning lately, and that all the fun is probably being sucked out of that too
Has the community managed to make policies to insulate itself from the dreaded Claude vs Claude match?
How long until OpenAI and Anthropic release a bunch of reports saying they spent millions of dollars and took the fun out of this field, take a look at the results, buy our subscriptions
@cwebber i mean, speedrunning is already well-separated between "tool-assisted" runs, where using save-states and frame-by-frame playback and all that other stuff is allowed, and "live" ones which only allow things that are possible to do on a real console
i can imagine folks trying to use genAI to come up with better TASes, but live runs seem safe
@cwebber apparently things are going wonderfully with the OOT remake
@mcc I'm not sure if I should ask what level of sarcasm and what the implications of this are
@cwebber fwiw Minecraft speedruns on twitch look normal to me. (I don't speedrun myself.) I rarely see TAS but they're usually quite specialized. The latest "achievements" of llms playing Minecraft "unassisted" were in the range of casual players or even people playing intentionally slow.