GTA V fans outraged after Rockstar remove AI-powered mod

❘ Published: 2023-08-18T21:10:09

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The GTA V fan community is shocked after Rockstar decided to shut down the Sentient Streets mod. Here’s everything that happened with this new AI-powered mod.

GTA V fans count on mods to introduce new missions and storylines to keep the almost 10-year-old game up to date. Sentient Streets was an AI-powered mod that got lots of attention but has suddenly been removed by Take-Two Interactive (Rockstar’s holding company) with little explanation.

“Of course they would remove it, we can’t have nice things, am I right fellas,” wrote Reddit user CharlesEverettDekker, “wouldn’t be surprising if Rockstar themselves plan to add some kind of AI-powered NPCs in GTA6 and this way they want to secure the tech. Or they’re just being d**ks as usual”.

The community was shocked after its creator, a modder called Bloc, explained on their YouTube channel that Take-Two Interactive hit the channel with a copyright strike about the video on his GTA V mod.

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Two days after, the account he uses to host his installation guides also got suspended. “No one from Take-Two Interactive contacted and ask me anything prior to this, they just took down the video out of nowhere,” he explained in his post.

“I must say, as a person who grew up with the Grand Theft Auto series and enjoyed all the games throughout the years, this hostile attitude towards me and the mod is very disheartening,” Bloc said on his YouTube channel, “If there was something violating the policy in the video, I would be happy to discuss that with Take2’s contact person if they would just send me an email.”

GTA V AI-powered GTA V mod explained

According to Bloc’s description for the mod, Sentient Streets was powered by more than 30 AI models that let players have open-ended conversations with different characters that inhabit Los Santos, GTA V’s fictional city.

Players could approach them by pressing the T key to get their attention and speak into their microphone to ask them a question. Each character had its own personality and provided answers generated in real-time and had background stories such as police officers, bizarre cult members, or even unsuspecting civilians.

The GTA V fan community was excited by the prospect of this innovative mod, and was shocked after hearing that Bloc’s idea was shut down by the publisher. “I managed to get it working, I think a day or 2 before this got taken down. It was one of the most amazing things I’ve seen in GTA, and I think serves as a great showcase for improved NPCs in games. Sorry to hear this,” expressed JGCoolfella on Bloc’s YouTube post.

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