AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill
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Summary
Aggro Crab co-founder Nick Kamen says scammers are selling cheap, AI-made versions of its co-op climbing game Peak, which has sold more than 8m copies.
Clones of popular indie games are a long-standing issue for the industry, though AI is making it easier for people without coding knowledge to create near carbon copies of successful titles.
The developers of games like Super Hexagon, Ridiculous Fishing, Threes, Unpacking and Wordle have all faced copycats, with some using copyright claims to fight fakes.
Smaller studios may struggle to fight clones and scammers, though platforms ultimately hold the power to remove offending titles.
Aggro Crab and developer Landfall have taken to social media to criticise AI-made rip-offs of Peak, which they say offer a worse experience than the deliberately laggy, slapstick original.
