[wigl]

What ever happened to the OpenAI/universe GTA sandbox? Is there any reason Rockstar shouldn’t support research using their game?

[m3at]

They got a cease and desist from the publisher [1]. The broad reasons are given in the article, but it's pretty much what you would imagine, IP issues. Also OpenAI seem to have taken down all their blog pages mentioning it without notice.. . Some are archived luckily [2].

I understand that they have to comply with regulations, however I was a bit disappointed that they weren't transparent about it.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2017/10/04/grand-th...

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20170111195314/https://openai.com...

[rzzzt]

I was also wondering about this. There are two issues in OpenAI's GitHub repo related to the removal, with not much information:

- https://github.com/openai/universe/issues/126

- https://github.com/openai/universe/issues/160

[numpad0]

For some reason they really didn't like GTA being seen as a research platform and C&D'd projects.

[vhold]

Perhaps because it could lead eventually to the most undetectable cheats yet and undermine their Skinner box cash extractors.

[littlemtman]

If there was a nice solution for it, I would have done it but there isn't. Also the action space for that would be enormous. Maybe I will be making a MuZero Bot drive in GTA, that would be fun !

[wigl]

Did some searching around and found a hidden fork, have you tried this?

https://github.com/Alpha-Drive/universe-windows-envs/tree/ma...

[littlemtman]

Yes I have, but I would prefer a really clean Gym Env for just vehicles in GTA, with an understandable action space.

[saltedonion]

I mean. Can you imagine the shit storm that ensues if someone use GTA for autonomous training data and caused deaths IRL. I don’t even want to think about that news headlines.