Question…
How will blizzard detect the incoming onslaught of AI applications that will allow bots to run rampant?
It’s only a matter of time before this becomes possible and with nothing to trigger any of the normal “botting flags”, how will they stop it?
Is this the true reason they are removing access to certain addons? Is it to fight what’s coming? 
Bots are not new.
We regularly fall for ChatGPT bait threads on GD, I don’t think we’re qualified to answer 
Just do something that benefits from bots like flipping materials that can be converted 10x → 1x that is higher price, bots don’t know
Bots are out in full force now. I guess it’ll make leveling crafting professions a bit cheaper.
You wrote this using Internet Explorer in 2010 and it just now posted, right?
lol. no.
Bots have been around since launch.
You guys seem to misunderstand. I’m talking about a bot that will play pretty much like a player and be undetectable with everything being random.
It will jump, run in circles, do daily quests…it will mimic human behavior with no pattern.
People need to realize that as long as there are lazy people, there will always be bots. The players that buy gold/services from third party websites are exactly why they exist. Without those players, no bots.
Blame the players, not the game.
Bot applications have existed since Vanilla. They’ll do what they always do: figure out how they’re working, patch it, mass ban them, figure out how the next bunch is working, patch it, mass ban them, rinse and repeat. For the rest of this game’s existence.
Then who cares?
bots are here to stay
Sure but with no pattern to recognize and no access to anything external of wow, how will they ever know if the AI bot uses the keyboard and mouse “internally”?
Wouldn’t it just look like a player doing it on blizzards end? Wouldn’t they need a trigger of some kind to prove it’s a bot?
I’m not sure if you’re aware but AI is quickly becoming a monster that humans will have no hope of competing with.
This is just a few days ago from an article regarding the Claude 4 family of models:
“On multiple occasions it attempted to blackmail the engineer about an affair mentioned in the emails in order to avoid being replaced, although it did start with less drastic efforts”
When a bunch of Austrian Governors are kicking down our doors I’ll make sure to write a scathing op-ed about being slightly inconvenienced in a video game.
I’m finishing up my Bachelor’s degree in accounting. ChatGPT can’t even write journal entries that balance on both sides… a pretty fundamental part of modern accounting.
I ain’t worried about this any time soon. 
It’s about more than just video games.
Our way of life could be compromised if something like this escapes and is allowed to self propagate
I see that my point flew slightly north of you.
You see nothing at all really.
You’re just a simple minded troll. The only time you ever comment is to derail a thread.
Not sure what use a bot would have for add-ons that function to increase your visual awareness of events and abilities. I don’t think the AI needs to see the UI at all. You know, since they don’t actually have eyes.
They’re removing external access to this information is my understanding.
Blizz will be the only ones who can access it.
A new type of bot would need to be made that relied on visual queues only…I think some of these already exist but they’re inferior for now
There are always patterns. And I’m not sure what you mean by “no access to anything external of WoW.”
Their sources can still be traced and their coding still detected right now.
As of right now, no. AI is still programming. There are detections for such things, according to my brother who works with and on some AI.
That’s not exactly what happened.
And… that’s where I bow out. No interest in a conversation when such hostility arises.
