World of Warcraft Forever Overrun with AI Addons
Original title: World of Warcraft: Forever Is Already Overrun with AI Slop
Warcraft Logs updates its API to combat flood of AI-generated addons ripping off developers.
World of Warcraft: Forever, a re-imagining of the 2004 MMO, launches Wednesday. Subreddits are overrun with AI slop addons. Archon.gg and Warcraft Logs report an explosion of commercial requests for their API. The company is changing its API to prevent scraping and introduce a paid commercial key. Creators complain that AI tools copy code and design ideas, leading to copyright complaints and takedowns on Curseforge. Warcraft Logs uses some AI internally for research and code review but faces pressure to balance accessibility with developer respect.
- Average one commercial API request per day.
- AI addons rip off longtime developers' work.
- Warcraft Logs making API changes to block scraping.
- Introducing paid commercial key for approved projects.
- Vendors
- Archon.gg
- Products
- Warcraft Logs
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The vibe-coded addon problem is getting so bad that Warcraft Logs is changing its API and developers are dealing with theft of their work.
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