GTA V AI Powered Mod Gets Taken Down by Take-Two; Modder ‘Disheartened’

As much as I've enjoyed Elden Ring, I've always thought the Lands Between don't have enough giant robots stomping around—unless you count the Wandering Mausoleums, but that's a philosophical debate for another time. Luckily, that's a problem we might someday see solved thanks to modders like Zullie the Witch, a prolific Souls dataminer whose most recent work involves dropping a dang Armored Core into Elden Ring.  Before you get too excited: No, it's not pilotable.

Volition, the developer behind the Red Faction and Saints Row series, has shut down.

There is no shortage of rumors and speculation pieces surfacing online for the next major installment of the Grand Theft Auto franchise. We’ve waited a good while for the next iteration since Grand Theft Auto V launched nearly a decade ago at this point. The last installment was such a massive hit that it left players in awe of all the details, storyline, and activities that Rockstar Games put into the title. But with the immense amount of success Rockstar Games had with Grand Theft Auto Online, the development for Grand Theft Auto 6 was likely pushed a bit further back than what was likely planned.

The road to get GTA 6 has not been an easy one for gamers. After all, Rockstar Games made it perfectly clear that they were fine with milking their fifth title and its online component for about a decade before confirming that a sixth title was in the works. Then, the massive leak of the title had everyone questioning what was going on, what the game’s quality would be like, and so on. Even with all of that dying down, Rockstar Games hasn’t provided any clues as to when the title may be released, making gamers all the more anxious.

GTA 6 is likely on its way, though we’re still waiting for an initial announcement from Rockstar. With the GTA 6 release date still pending, one Grand Theft Auto player storms the stage of Gamescom 2023, interrupting host Geoff Keighley to shout questions about the next Rockstar sandbox game and sequel to GTA 5. This appears to be the same person who has previously invaded live television shows to ask about GTA 6 and, most recently, a return to Vice City.

Grand Theft Auto 6 was announced way back in February 2022—though there's been precious little information since then, bar a series of leaks later in the year. Rockstar Games itself has been hush-hush on the details, only really promising that it 'needs to be something you've never seen before'. 

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A week after Rockstar approved mods from Grand Theft Auto Online's roleplaying community, Take-Two has removed a mod for Grand Theft Auto V that featured AI-generated dialogue. 

Take-Two has enforced a shutdown of a Grand Theft Auto 5 mod relying on generative AI, its creator has claimed.

A single GTA 5 mod has rekindled the age-old shouting match about the precise legality and contribution of videogame mods, in the eyes of developers, publishers and players - while also threatening to trigger fresh debate on the use of large language models, aka AI, in game development. The mod in question, "AI Powered GTA V: Story Mode with AI NPCs" sees you investigating a cult of weirdo AI worshippers, with characters capable of real-time AI-generated dialogue. It's now been struck from several sites by GTA 5 publisher Take-Two Interactive.

The developer of a Grand Theft Auto V mod which gave players the ability to chat to NPCs using AI says it’s been removed by Rockstar‘s parent company Take-Two Interactive.

«No one from Take-Two Interactive contacted and ask me anything prior to this, they just took down the video out of nowhere.»