[reaperman]

The "end-game" for cheating software is just a camera pointed at the monitor, or an HDMI splitter. Run the video feed through a not-invented-yet AI/ML model, and the model will control your character via valid USB keyboard/mouse inputs.

"Behavioral" anti-cheat will have to finally become a thing. As a game designer in 5-10 years, you won't be able to assume the operating system will be privy to any data which indicates cheating is happening.

I believe the right answer would be to cluster players by behavior signatures, leading to all the bots being in clusters with eachother. Then bots can mostly just play other bots. Over time you can merge known "human" clusters together so that different play styles get to play in the same matches. This also has the benefit of clustering "toxic" players together - both by chat content and in-game player behavior.

[steveklabnik]

Right, what I'm describing is basically 90% of that setup, just copying memory rather than with a camera.

> leading to all the bots being in clusters with eachother.

Some games do this! The factors are different, but yeah.