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Re:Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizza... by noobermin on Monday April 20, 2026 @02:20AM (#47830965)
> Blizzard is right to protect their IP.

They should have just taken their binaries, trained on the outputs (frames may be) run a few simulations games, and produced WoW-GPT. Blizzard would be working out to acquihire them for millions. Wrong move Turtle WoW.

Re:Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizza... by cernocky on Monday April 20, 2026 @02:57AM (#47831144)
This is interesting point. I think lot of people assume that training gathers new "metadata" based on the original data and ignore what the training optimises for which is direct copy of the input. Training a model results in a fancy copy paste (unless incentivised differently).
Re:Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizza... by Fokamul on Monday April 20, 2026 @06:49AM (#47832523)
You're naive thinking that Blizzard wants to make something new and creative.

They're just milking current players and they even let people to bot and RMT. Without banning anybody.