How Hackers Use AI Cheats

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How Hackers Use AI Cheats

In late 2022, AI began taking the world by storm.
It didn’t take long for this technology to find its way into online gaming, as hackers, began to realize its true potential.

A new method of cheating, that was completely undetectable.
If AI keeps progressing at the same rate it has been, the future of online gaming could be doomed.

So how can AI cheats be stopped? And how... can we save gaming?

Chapters:
0:00 Inside an aimbot
2:45 Neural Networks
6:45 The increasing danger of computer vision
8:28 Backpropagation
10:01 Fortress vulnerabilities
13:58 Cat and mouse
16:33 A new threat

[CaptainMooz]

Very soon: "Vanguard is not installed on your mouse and monitor. Would you like to install Vanguard onto the mouse and monitor?"

[Rivalrvn]

NOT K'SUUMI (this a gat dam movie wtf)

[funkydn]

For a League of Legends youtuber you make some fairly complex subjects super easy for anyone to understand. Your content is honestly incredible in so many ways, and i can't help to feel like if you did not solely focus on League of Legends you could grow your channel so much more. Your knowledge obviously goes far beyond just League related stuff, and with how well made your videos are, you would without a doubt make almost anything interesting to your viewers. Good job Ryscu, you doing some great work here - keep the videos coming!

[gazpacho]

Love these longer-form videos, you're a kick-ass narrator

[Wabinator]

Hackers be like: From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death I serve the Omnissiah

[Brandon_Eaton]

Came to watch a cool video about ai cheats, left learning more than I did in school

[PiotrK]

Actually Regular Drivers don't operate at such level, deepest level is reserved for EFI Boot, which run directly at the motherboard's UEFI or BIOS, executed after POST, before the OS and is like a Hypervisor to the OS (while not actually emulating anything). This type of code runs at so called RING-1 (minus 1) and allows the EFI Boot to literally make physical memory parts invisible (and/or inaccessible) to the operating system (so it can hide itself). Modern "real-hardware" cheaters actually run at this level and even secureboot ain't a barrier to creating own EFI Boot software (as you can literally overwrite secureboot state straight in mobo UEFI that was loaded into the ram from that kind of privilege, thus spoofing it). RING0 has a really hard time detecting RING-1 cheats unless it moves to RING-1 it self.

- I already imagine future Riot Vanguard installing itself as a boot device, causing additional boot manager entry, turning the pc to dualboot, and you being able to pick between Microsoft Windows 11 and Start Riot Vanguard boot options, just like you can do with having Windows and Ubuntu installed together on one pc.

Edit: There's also RING-2, even deeper but getting there requires CPU exploit (or other, cpu manufacturer known ways, that's why it cannot be easily used by cheaters or malicious actors, and why EFI boot is considered the deepest instead of RING-2) as the code runs in something like Intel Management Engine (and we both know how privileged that is, since these are separate chips directly on the cpu itself) but it's no different from EFI Boot regarding from what it can do beside the fact that it's not running in Physical Memory like EFI boot does (and basic rules like EFI boot being unable to r/w it since it's a ring below).

[callump]

Great video. On that last point, it's worth noting that Valve recently released a CS2 blog post and has now banned SOCD / Snap Tap. You'll get kicked once it's detected.

[yourname]

One day saying they had a better gaming chair will hold some real weight

[sauvagess]

Speaking about "Snap-tap" this is actually something that's been an issue for fighting games for a long time. The technical is known as Simultaneous Opposite Cardinal Directions, or "SOCD Cleaning." Commonly known for the "hitbox" or those arcade controllers that are all buttons for both face and directional inputs, where you can do the same thing mentioned there.

It's an...incredibly complicated situation, and I wouldn't know where to start on it, considering the fact that despite me using a gamepad to play fighting games, I have some that don't have a pivot, which allow pressing simultaneous conflicting directions just like a hitbox controller.

[alphaderago]

I left league because of vanguard. I don't accept an always online kernel anti cheat. But as these AI cheats have been proliferating, I've just found myself utterly disinterested in any form of PVP because every game has been flooded for a while.

[zan]

"VMC (Vanguard Monitoring Camera) has not been detected in your room, the game will close shortly. Please restart your PC when VMC is setup to play."

[chohsena]

This reminds me of a story I saw recently talking about tech doping in sports, more specifically the Olympics. Which is when you have an advantage based on sponsors or rather the gear you or they have access too. The days of only using glasses for a competitive edge are behind us.

[yuumijungle]

i never understood the appeal for cheating, people are so fking delusional, that they actually believe they have achieved something by cheating. there are 100% bronze players in league who believe they deserve diamond and use stuff like scripts or elo boosts to get there and legit believe they are a diamond player now xD

[fpwallet]

Bruh ai will literally ruin many things ;(

[Lberondroth]

As someone who has been programming AI cheats for a very long time (not for sale, but simply for testing since 2014/15) I can say that it is a very good video, but a few things that I miss, but maybe too much insight:
1. meanwhile, the annotation is not so often done by yourself but automatically. For example, you use a much larger model that recognizes pretty much everything (5 seconds of interference per image until it is annotated). Then a smaller model e.g., YOLO the model is then fine-tuned to get a much faster interference (a few milliseconds)
2. instead of using mouse drivers, a computer chip is typically used for Valorant, like the Arduino. You have to manipulate the Arduino a little but with a simple construction an anti cheat cannot tell the difference between mouse and Arduino, therefore you don't need a special driver. But for Fortnite, cs 2, a simple function containing 4 lines and a well known library is enough.
For more questions or contact just ask .^^

[ragganmore]

Damn. Hearing how much some people are willing to pay to compensate for their frail egos is absolutely insane to me. Why the heck would any sane person pay even a single Euro/Dollar for cheats?

[JA-tpmj]

The fortress example is so good lol, just a quick suggestion, I like how you explained what a Vector is in logical terms, but you should also explain what the ViewAngle is as a lot of people don't understand it,
Awesome video though, you are the best at explaining this to people in such a easy to understand way

[reidmock]

I'm loving these more technical videos you've been releasing lately. I don't play League all that much anymore, but this content is particularly intriguing to me, as a control systems engineer.

[tothe]

Ryscu, I'm pretty impressed with the accuracy of this video! AI and low-level hardware security are both really deep technical areas, and I'm impressed you manage to communicate so effectively about them without hour-long tangents or oversimplification!