Subj : Are you a Call of Duty cheater? Watch out  AI is coming for you,
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Wed Nov 27 2024 15:15:05

Are you a Call of Duty cheater? Watch out  AI is coming for you, as 
Activision boasts of 19,000 bans from ranked play with Black Ops 6

Date:
Wed, 27 Nov 2024 15:05:08 +0000

Description:
Ricochet, the anti-cheat system for Call of Duty games, is being ramped up 
using AI.

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Duty has ramped up AI with code optimizations to catch cheaters Since ranked 
play launched a week ago, 19,000 bans have been enacted But cheating still 
remains a thorny problem with Black Ops 6 

 Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 has been out for a month, and multiplayer is, of 
course, where cheaters are doing their best to ruin everyone elses fun  but 
Activision is doing its best to catch them with an increasing emphasis on 
using AI. 

Call of Duty games use an in-house anti-cheat (at the kernel level) called 
Ricochet, and on X, the developer has outlined the latest achievements in 
terms of taking out cheaters. 

Apparently, Ricochet has facilitated the ban of over 19,000 cheaters in 
ranked play since that mode launched (a week ago).  #BlackOps6 #RankedPlay 
#TeamRICOCHET with an update on the ongoing work to combat cheating in Ranked 
Play: AI systems continue to ramp up with code optimizations to accelerate 
enforcements Over 19,000 Ranked Play bans since the mode launched Hourly 
sweeps to remove November 26, 2024 

As you can see from the post on X, there are hourly sweeps to eject cheaters 
from the ranked play mode (and leaderboard), and were told that AI systems 
are being ramped up with code optimizations to better achieve this goal. 
Analysis: The war on cheats 

Fewer cheaters is good news for everyone, of course  except the offenders 
themselves, naturally. However, as someone replying to the above post on X 
points out, all cheaters do after they are banned is create another account. 
Or, we should clarify, persistent or dedicated cheaters do this. 

So, should Activision just give up and not bother? Obviously not, and some 
more casual cheaters might be put off by a ban (or repeated bans, certainly). 
But what about the more hardcore cheats out there? The workarounds to obtain 
a new account (including buying a hacked one) arent expensive or that 
difficult to do, sadly. 

While AI is likely to very much help to police cheating, especially as these 
systems get honed more and more, itll have to be doing so in a really timely 
manner to start putting proper roadblocks in the way of those who want to 
break the rules in Black Ops 6 (or other games ). 

Meanwhile, the arguments continue as to the best way to deal with determined 
Call of Duty cheaters, including forcing two-factor authentication for 
accounts to at least help combat the number of accounts getting stolen  but 
there are thorny issues whichever way you look at this. 

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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/are-you-a-call-of-duty-cheater-watch-out-ai-i
s-coming-for-you-as-activision-boasts-of-19-000-bans-from-ranked-play-with-bla
ck-ops-6


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