The rise of AI-generated cross-game mash-up modules has senior producers collectively expressing dissatisfactionAI 生成的跨游戏混搭模组兴起，资深制作者集体表达不满

IT House reported on October 5 that senior game mod makers are deeply dissatisfied with the recent trend in the Internet mod circle, which is the so-called "vibe-coded" modules generated by AI. According to IGN, the opposition is continuing to grow: Many modders (some of whom openly admit that they use generative AI to assist in writing mods) are openly discussing a type of mashup module that forcibly combines multiple unrelated games. "I am making game mods myself, and I don't shy away from using AI for development. But I hate this outrageous trend. It is just a shoddy product, and there is no creativity at all." Moderator kran27_ wrote in a post. He also added: “What’s gaining traffic now are all things that use fancy gimmicks to fool people.” Another producer named discountmodder said: “If the modding circle becomes like this permanently in the future, this may be my last project. I don’t want to stay in an AI inferior content processing factory.” What really irritates them is the emergence of a large number of cross-border mash-up modules: the content of "World of Warcraft" is moved into "Call of Duty: World at War", "Escape from Tarkov" is transplanted into "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim", and there is also a version of the Insomniac "Spider-Man" module that can control Spider-Man to swing through Gotham City in "Batman: Arkham City". IT House noticed that in just one week, this trend has intensified. The driving force behind it is Claude Opus 5.5: the cost of using tokens in this model has been reduced, and the code generation capability has been improved. Users only need to hand over the game to the model for processing, and after decompilation, they can forcibly add completely unrelated game content into it, thus greatly lowering the threshold. The performance of this type of mod is hit or miss at best. Youtube blogger Brendan Jowett posted a comparison video, testing Opus 5.5 and OpenAI's Astra 6 model. It can be seen that both models have difficulty handling even the basic logic: the enemy ignores the player character, and the space fighter flies diagonally while firing straight forward. But so far, there haven’t been any such mix-and-match mods on mainstream mod platforms like Nexus Mods. IGN believes that the reason behind it is most likely a copyright issue, not a lack of interest. The Nexus platform issued clear rules for AI-generated content as early as 2023: "To avoid your mods causing various disputes, we recommend that you try not to use such AI tools; unless you have obtained explicit permission to use all material resources." Almost all such mods circulating on social platform As IGN put it, the most worrying point for mod practitioners is: if a certain platform decides to host such modules in the future, whether the existing rules can still be maintained. At this stage, this trend is only limited to the X platform to gain traffic, but it may completely rewrite the meaning of "modding" itself. When the masterpiece "GTA6" lands on the PC platform in the future, various mods will inevitably appear on the Internet; but before that, Rockstar Games has introduced new restrictions on the modding community.