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Rich Stanton

PUBG dev says it bans up to 100,000 accounts a week, and now it's deploying AI models to hunt the cheats

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PUBG developer Krafton has a new blogpost from its anti-cheat team, discussing the omnipresent problem of cheating in the game and what it's doing to tackle the villains. It begins with a pretty astonishing demonstration of the scale of the problem: "Every week, the PUBG: Battlegrounds Anti-Cheat Team identifies and imposes permanent bans on an average of 60,000 to a maximum of about 100,000 accounts involved in the use, distribution, or sale of illegal software."

Then the question might be why do players still encounter cheaters at all? Krafton says it recognises that "a more comprehensive approach" is needed and that, while it can go on banning accounts permanently till the cows come home, it needs a "fundamental solution" to analyse and track accounts doing the bad things.

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