Oh yeah it’s a super common myth, but it’s about as real as alpha wolves or lemmings jumping off cliffs

Adult cats totally meow at each other. Plenty of YouTube videos of colony cats fitted with cameras where they’re doing it. Heck, earlier today there was an upvoted post of a cat meowing at another because it wanted to be groomed

Valve has made attempts to take down projects that follow those rules. TF2Classic is the example that comes to my mind since it’s the main one I’ve played, but I know there are several others. In TF2C’s case, they tried contacting Valve to find out why they’d been hit with a C&D, never heard back, and eventually quietly resumed development.

Some kind of miscommunication between legal and the devs? Maybe internal drama? Maybe they didn’t really pay attention and still aren’t aware TF2C is back up? Who knows. Still happened tho.

On the one hand calling it AI is annoying, but on the other we’ve been calling video game NPC logic “AI” for as long as I can remember and no one thinks they’re actually sapient. Surely we can get to that point with GenAI as well.