Now I've been playing this game since I got introduced to it in freshman year of high-school by a few people in the class. That was over four years ago (my previous account was @cerealFish or something like that if you want to check the join date) and I have seen a rise in people using AI Generated images and text all over this site. You can find AI Generated text and images in half the clans in this game.
I've been pretty disappointed seeing all of this but it hasn't given me a strong urge to quit. Then I realized that fizzer is using ai generated images as icons for mods. Now I just don't want to keep playing this game.
Lots of people will probably read this and think "wow this guy is another one of those people that hate ai for no reason!" but I feel like theres nothing more that says you don't really commit to or care about this community as including ai generated images and text into things such as clan pictures, clan descriptions, or the mod thumbnails.
I could go over all of the reasons why I believe AI is not really a good thing and should not be associated with this game, but I don't think I can explain it as good and accurately as other people who make entire videos on this sort of thing, so I will link videos and explain what it covers.
And I really don't like to kick up dust and make a forum post that will likely get people agitated, but this is a big deal to me.
Also to note... Generative AI is the problem, not to be confused with other AI systems that are helpful and don't impede humanity

Problems with AI in art from an artist that used to believe that ai art was a good thing: https://youtu.be/zhMp62XETj0?si=4HL5YY-gNrH1Q4lo
AI generated misinformation all over the web: https://youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?si=XLU7W_7ed1z4QJVz
Data centers ruining quality of life: https://youtu.be/t-8TDOFqkQA?si=qVk2C4_KMq053K6F
AI training data is stolen (huge copyright issue):
https://youtu.be/U9d0p96N1iw?si=3CKSVwFGH0kb2sEL
Other issues I didn't put videos on here is how lots of money and resources are put into making AI (because greedy investors think that if you can make an AI do everything an employee/freelancer can do, they won't have to pay for them, which puts people out of jobs and replaces quality for quantity), AI can be used to harass people (often by generating explicit photos of them), and people can depend on AI so much to the point where they lose critical thinking skills because they ask AI everything so much.

If you are for generative AI and think it is a good thing, think about this. Imagine your partner writes you a message about every detail that they like about you, and you cherish it for a long while, you keep it and think about it often. Then you find out later that your partner wasn't the one that wrote it, they just wrote "write me a letter to my partner" into a prompt. To think that this community is building themselves off of AI generated texts and images just doesn't feel good to me.

https://www.warzone.com/wiki/Mod_Images

"Then I realized that fizzer is using ai generated images as icons for mods"

Is just wrong, moders pick their own images and icons. But yes, the trend of generated content across the web seems unlikely to go away :/ Tricky, when the Gen. AI is jus better at some tasks then what a random person is.

Edited 2026-01-19 06:03:45

I agree with TBest, as a mod creator i dont mind using AI to create images. It is either using AI for it, or to search the web for a free image somewhere.

And since searching the web until you have found a good image that captures what you want to show can take a lot of time, I get it why people opt for it.

I do want to note that a lot of the images in the game can be found on game-icons.net, a place where also a lot of mod images are taken from (units and icons mostly), but recent images are probably made by AI indeed

It’s been genuinely disheartening to see generative ai be used on this site. It makes the game feel soulless.

+1 OP TOTAL CLANKER DEATH
Also obligatory ONGEZELLIG WILL ALWAYS BE A GEM

Edited 2026-02-01 21:41:37

TRUE...

Glad someone mentioned the problem here.

In mods that I made, I even include raw card images, just so that people can verify that images in my mods are actually made by a human. Mods that I previously made are on https://github.com/DanWaLes/Warzone/tree/main/mods , but published by https://www.warzone.com/Profile?p=79105823914&u=krinid_1 and hosted on https://github.com/krinid/Warzone even though no changes made.

AI companies steal all kinds of creative works, including source code (by not following licensing terms and attribution requirements).

AI has brought down open source software development: https://www.fastcompany.com/91197457/ai-crawlers-are-hammering-sites-and-nearly-taking-them-offline , https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/devs-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries , https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/27/open-source-devs-are-fighting-ai-crawlers-with-cleverness-and-vengeance

AI is rapidly increasing the cost of RAM and SSDs: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory , https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive

Microsoft uses AI generated code on Windows 11. No surprise there how updates (including security updates) increasingly break the system in one way or another: https://community.spiceworks.com/t/microsoft-ceo-says-up-to-30-of-its-code-written-by-ai/1201557 , https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/broken-patches-ai-code-windows-193024345.html , https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/01/21/windows-11-had-20-major-update-problems-in-2025-and-and-2026-started-badly-too-what-are-you-doing-microsoft

From my own experience before I knew of ethical issues around the use of AI, it uses out of date or incorrect data, which results in bad code. It doesn't understand Warzone's Mod API. AI is better suited for short, well-known algorithms, instead of large portions of code.

Human made works should always be preferred over somewhat legalised theft that is of worse quality.

What we can do about it:

• Install the browser extension uBlockOrigin or uBlockOrigin Lite (with complete filtering) and enable the "EasyList – AI Suggestions" filter
  
• Follow instructions on https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
  
• Make the bubble pop! https://www.reddit.com/r/AgentsOfAI/comments/1o2d2px/here_is_how_the_ai_bubble_is_being_created_per/
  
• If going down the route of generalised network filter filtering, is worth looking at https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists
  

I believe there is stilll a niche for human work. Just like people pay extra for paintings made with feet. Or people giving money to a newspaper supporting the homeless.

What humans fighting back against AI are missing is that the war is already over. AI has won while humans made uninformed stupid videos about "Dumb AI slop" after the AI algorithm told them that those videos generate the most clicks. What will happen next is no longer a war but just AI gradually taking over. The question is not "if" but whether we are talking about 1 year or 5 years.

100% of my code is AI generated. If someone says that AI writes bad code I would fire him since he is either dishonestly working against company interests or he is a bad engineer.

Edited 2026-02-06 21:06:47

If someone says that AI writes bad code I would fire him since he is either dishonestly working against company interests or he is a bad engineer.

Prompting isn't engineering and creates security issues that could have been prevented if AI wasn't unsupervised:

• https://thehackernews.com/2025/12/researchers-uncover-30-flaws-in-ai.html
  
• https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/report-finds-ai-generated-code-poses-security-risks
  
• https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/cybersecurity-risks-of-ai-generated-code
  

AI gives the illusion of productivity but in reality you forget skills and become worse:

• https://smarterarticles.co.uk/the-ai-coding-productivity-illusion-why-developers-feel-faster-but-deliver
  
• https://cmr.berkeley.edu/2026/01/ai-productivity-blind-spot
  

If you force AI, I'd quit. It's against consumer interest.

This is what happens when you force AI into everything: https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microslop-trends-on-social-media-backlash-to-microsofts-on-going-ai-obsession-continues

Edited 2026-02-06 23:38:33

The point of AI is (at least for the foreseeable future) not to replace an engineering department all on its own but the point is that a single highly skilled engineer with an AI replaces an engineering department.

Personally I am still convinced that everyone in IT who claims that AI produces slop is either lying or they are not really working in IT or maybe they are juyst bad at their job. Obviously someone who has 0 clue what he is doing can do way more damage if you give him an electrical chainsaw than when he uses a mechanical one. But in the hand of a professional it is magic. Here is Linus Torvalds praising AI to be better than him (granted, not in his main field of experience): https://github.com/torvalds/AudioNoise/commit/93a7256

I only work with professionals on enterprise software. Everyone can see the writing on the wall. That AI generates slop talk is mostly from some internet guys and I can not see their credentials.

In my experience, I can give AI a task which takes me a more than a week and it blitzes through it in roughly 1 hour. What I get from it is fully tests software. In order to make that work, I first discuss the specification with the AI for a couple of hours. After the AI has done the development work, I review it together with AI because I obviously am responsible for the code, not the tool I use. I never find plain coding errors, but during the review I might encounter things which were not specified properly and which I need to discuss with other stakeholders.

Edited 2026-02-07 00:38:48

You seem to be ignoring all legal and ethical aspects of AI, how there's search engine result poisoning, not acknowledging its faults nor its forceful integration into everything. I have provided practical steps to deal with the issue.

As the saying goes, "Do not argue with trolls—it means they win".

I have never heard any argument in the "real" IT world about AI perhaps being a big nothingburger which will just go away. The only discussions evolve around some kind of company wide AI strategy and how to adapt business models.

In high security environments there are pushbacks against AI usage but that has nothing to do with the quality of the AI work but more with compliance regulations. E.g. the EU GDPR does not allow sending sensitive data outside the EU. But all that can be solved e.g. with AI providers having EU subsidiaries or perhaps even with local open source AI usage.

AI is there to stay and it will hit hard. Predicting that is as little of a gamble as stating that the sun will rise tomorrow.

Did you say that the ai generated code makes no mistakes but you didn't specify it enough so now there are things in the code you did or didn't want? isn't that a mistake? I think the only people who defend generative AI are the people who are already reliant on it. You defend it because it writes all your code

Norman's gf is probably a clanker

Did you say that the ai generated code makes no mistakes but you didn't specify it enough so now there are things in the code you did or didn't want? isn't that a mistake? I think the only people who defend generative AI are the people who are already reliant on it. You defend it because it writes all your code

It makes no low level mistakes as humans do like e.g. geting an if statement wrong or such stuff. I have absolute trust in AI at this level.

E.g. for the Warzone clan league server we are playing Wordle so I vibe coded together a Wordle solver in roughly 30 minutes: https://norman1.github.io/wordle-solver/ . My one shot first version already worked but then someone using a smartphone complained that he could not input the letters due to not having a keyboard. And then I later on realized that my solver was not playing optimal because Wordle does not only have a wordlist but it has 2 lists which are an allowlist and a wordlist meaning that you can make some exocitc word guesses which are not possible results. So I talked with AI about that and it solved it. When you try it out, you will find that at the start it seems to freeze and you can not see that it is in fact calculating the first mathematically most optimal guess. So if I continued working on it, I would complain about that lack of usability. Anyhow, in the whole process I have not written a single line of code and the whole thing is vibe coded. I have looked into a couple of online available Wordle solvers and found mine to be the best.

Edited 2026-02-07 09:49:07

It's against consumer interest

• https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/steam-updates-ai-disclosure-form-to-specify-that-its-focused-on-ai-generated-content-that-is-consumed-by-players-not-efficiency-tools-used-behind-the-scenes/
  
• https://www.pcworld.com/article/3044488/90-of-duckduckgo-users-dont-want-ai.html
  
• https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-is-reevaluating-its-ai-efforts-on-windows-11-plans-to-reduce-copilot-integrations-and-evolve-recall
  
• https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/firefox-will-soon-let-you-block-all-of-its-generative-ai-features/
  

There is huge push-back. Reasons for push-back include taking without consent, compensation and credit. It also uses pirated data-sets:

• https://www.techpolicy.press/ai-lawsuits-worth-watching-a-curated-guide
  
• https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libgen-meta-openai/682093
  
• https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-approved-pirated-books-training-ai-lawsuit-10489199
  

In my opinion, anyone using or endorsing AI should be ashamed of themselves and the leaders of the AI companies should be locked up.

The only way that I see fit if you were to use AI is with licensing deals where there is actual consent. At the same time though, AI is soulless and has quality errors. Keep the arts human.

Made this feature request for anyone interested: https://www.warzone.com/Forum/864717-mods-disclose-ai-imagery

I have absolute trust in AI at this level

There's no easy way to say this, but that trust is misplaced. I've found a type of security vulnerability within literally minute on https://github.com/Norman1/mhunters-clan-ladder . It's because prompting isn't engineering. You don't actually understand how the program works and how it could be attacked. I could give details on it on the issues page if you're interested.

Edit: fixed typo in url

Edited 2026-02-08 13:45:34

If it leaked my API token I would care else everything is as designed.

@halloweenLights: If there is demand, I can make some guidance how to vibe code e.g. some cool mods. We can make the game so great with people having the passion but were previously lacking the skillz.

I can make some guidance how to vibe code e.g. some cool mods

If you do that, you steal mod author's work without attribution, which is against MIT license terms. You'd also steal from other programmers from all around the internet (and their code also has license incompatibilities).

You lack respect of original authors.

If you want to make a mod, politely ask someone to make it and they might get round to it in their own time. Alternativly learn to program then learn the mod API framework. There are plenty of examples to see how it works.

LLMs hallucinate the whole mod API framework, even if you try to get it to learn it. AI code is prone to bugs and you'll need to manually check crashes. It's sloppy code, end of.