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Re:Valve secrets spill over in new Steam documentary app by cameronbrown on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:49AM (#23790553)
If you're interested, Valve uses deep learning model called VACnet to "watch" every player on their servers[0][1]. If any dodgy gameplay is detected, it gets submitted into a moderation queue called Overwatch[2], which is basically delegates the decisions to ban cheaters community. It's really cool how they've gamified this.

[0]https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/vacnet-csgo/ [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnRgW54EWwA [2]https://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/overwatch/

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Re:Valve secrets spill over in new Steam documentary app by fbnlsr on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:51AM (#23792039)
It goes beyond that. Overwatch is now mainly use to train the machine learning algorithm and confirm cases. The whole VACnet thing is automated and cheaters are now either automatically banned or put in a separate queue so they play against each other until the system (or a human) confirms they are indeed cheating.

Same goes for griefers and ragers, they're assigned a low "Trust Factor" so that they play together, leaving other more serious players play together.

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