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Re:Thank You, Valve by crtasm on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:58AM (#30245684)
Valve do this, here's a good talk:

Robocalypse Now: Using Deep Learning to Combat Cheating in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTiP0zKF9bc

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Re:Thank You, Valve by jampa on Monday February 07, 2022 @11:33AM (#30247110)
As a former CSGO player (not a very competitive one) this trust factor really sucks, and Valve oversells it.

If you play with lower ranked friends and do really good in matches you will get reported a lot which will tank your trust factor and almost guarantees it that will only see hackers from them on.

They say they use other factors like account metadata, but I have a 10 year old account, with purchased games and verified phone and still got "Low Trust Factor" after playing with friends and started to have an obvious hacker every other match.

That is why I am a former CSGO player

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Re:Thank You, Valve by pbhjpbhj on Monday February 07, 2022 @10:33AM (#30246210)
This is kinda weird, CSGO has spinbots and xp-farming bots: one moves faster than is humanly possible, the other moves on the spot or in a circle with exact constant rotation ... the only conclusion I can make is CSGO want these bots, because auto-blocking them seems trivial.

Why use deep learning when so, so many bots (and their host accounts) could be blocked with trivial heuristics? My only guess is allowing spinbots/farming somehow provides a financial gain in CSGO?

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Re:Thank You, Valve by enragedcacti on Monday February 07, 2022 @01:52PM (#30249263)
> My only guess is allowing spinbots/farming somehow provides a financial gain in CSGO?

Valve devs have a lot more leeway than your average developer. They honestly might have just thought it would be cooler.

Beyond that they now have the infrastructure to detect more subtle forms of cheating through deep learning using Overwatch (the reporting system, not the game) as ground truth data to train their AI.

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