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Browser-Based ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ Shows How AI Is Making It Easy to Illegally Port Games to New Platforms

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Browser-Based ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ Shows How AI Is Making It Easy to Illegally Port Games to New Platforms

Just a few days ago, Sam Altman pronounced that we, the plebs, “should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of [AI].” This obviously demanded the question of what the benefits actually are, and while Altman was uncharacteristically quiet on that point, this week provided one answer: weird knock-offs of well-known video games!

Last week it was a nightmarish browser-based Fallout-like set in New York, and if the idea of a new Fallout game with 117 unique locations, recruitable companions, and so on sounds good, I fear the moment has passed: Bethesda slapped the game’s, um, creator with a cease-and-desist notice, and the game was promptly removed from the internet. But lest you get any sort of retrospective FOMO, this screenshot should cure it:

Anyway, this week brought another such project—a playable version of Grand Theft Auto V, again running in a web browser. Unlike Fallout Niu Lai, this seems to be an actual port of the game.

You can now play GTA 5 in web browser in multiplayer with your friends https://t.co/yZjW4a4uzw pic.twitter.com/OxftdrZqE6

The site was of course nuked pretty much immediately by Rockstar, although people are claiming that it remains playable via archive.org—we couldn’t get it to load, but your mileage may vary.

More interesting is the question of how this was done. ” This isn’t as bold a claim as it sounds: the game’s source code leaked in late 2023, having apparently been taken the year before in the same breach that saw pre-release GTA VI footage released onto the internet.


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