So, the MTL spam eating up the "new" entries in the submissions is very telling. However, and far more concerning than a total lack of quality or

[outrider]

seeming effort put into these works is the fact that a great deal of these MTL patch sources (especially the English ones) are coming from day one accounts with zero post history in their respective hacking scenes/groups and are just being put up here as safe. I mentioned this in another thread, but I'll say it again. There are governments that have entire departments that utilize AI to spread malware. Unprotected, unverified little underground communities like this are begging for a massive malware/virus epidemic. They don't care what your political leanings are. It is a shotgun spread approach to destroying entire blankets of foreign infrastructure. More care and discretion should be put forward before uploading this crap the literal day of it appearing!

 

[TruxtonTatsujin]

I'm not exactly sure what you're on about but there is one thing we can agree on:
Machine translations should be in their own section on the repo, they're currently labelled as such but I don't think that's enough. They need their own tab/section.

 

[outrider]

I'm not exactly sure what you're on about but there is one thing we can agree on:
Machine translations should be in their own section on the repo, they're currently labelled as such but I don't think that's enough. They need their own tab/section.

Go onto some of the posts that were made from these MTL patches, their source, which is linked, thankfully. Typically comes from a forum or hack group and then you can go and click on the member of that group in question. They're almost all day one accounts, with no post history, project overview/definition. Some even come from threads that read like an AI spam bot made the damn thing. The only reason somebody would be doing something like that is if they directed to do so, which screams malware. Or, an effort to spread it. Which, is what I'm talking about. Just look at how many sketchy Youtube AI videos and accounts there are. Deviantart, Reddit, etc. There's a shit ton of these things and they aren't doing it for no reason. If there isn't a direct request for money via E-Begging, then there is often some promotion or other reason along similar reasons for doing so.

I'm seeing some of these posts made within hours of the patch being added by the sketchy accounts, that means little to no effort was made to make sure the files were safe/virus free. This is sloppy, dangerous shit.

 

[TruxtonTatsujin]

Go onto some of the posts that were made from these MTL patches, their source, which is linked, thankfully. Typically comes from a forum or hack group and then you can go and click on the member of that group in question. They're almost all day one accounts, with no post history, project overview/definition. Some even come from threads that read like an AI spam bot made the damn thing. The only reason somebody would be doing something like that is if they directed to do so, which screams malware. Or, an effort to spread it. Which, is what I'm talking about. Just look at how many sketchy Youtube AI videos and accounts there are. Deviantart, Reddit, etc. There's a shit ton of these things and they aren't doing it for no reason. If there isn't a direct request for money via E-Begging, then there is often some promotion or other reason along similar reasons for doing so.

I'm seeing some of these posts made within hours of the patch being added by the sketchy accounts, that means little to no effort was made to make sure the files were safe/virus free. This is sloppy, dangerous shit.

it's just sloppy AI tools enabling talentless people, nothing special. Also all this stuff is either run on emulators or real hardware, don't think it's possible to spread malware this way.

 

[nyka]

It doesn't help when some of the modship has a vendetta to push this junk

 

[outrider]

it's just sloppy AI tools enabling talentless people, nothing special. Also all this stuff is either run on emulators or real hardware, don't think it's possible to spread malware this way.

If it's code on your PC, then it can have virus and malware on it. An unguarded executable with open source code like an emulator would be a perfect way to spread viruses. Granted, most of these are probably just spam from lazy/hobbyists. Which, like you said would be fixed by putting it into its own section. But, again, the vulnerability here is real and shouldn't be underestimated. More care should be taken here.

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It doesn't help when some of the modship has a vendetta to push this junk

Whatever their reasoning, it's not something that should be allowed to cloud a person's judgement.