[STEAM] Open source GZDoom community splinters after creator inserts AI-generated code

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If you've even idly checked in on the robust world of Doom fan development in recent years, you've probably encountered one of the hundreds of

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based on GZDoom. The

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—which can trace its lineage back to the

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—adds modern graphics rendering, quality-of-life additions, and incredibly deep modding features to

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that John Carmack released in 1997.

Now, though, the community behind GZDoom is publicly fracturing, with a large contingent of developers uniting behind a new fork

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. The move is in apparent protest of the leadership of GZDoom creator and maintainer

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, who recently admitted to inserting untested AI-generated code into the GZDoom codebase.

"Due to some disagreements—some recent; some tolerated for close to 2 decades—with how collaboration should work, we've decided that the best course of action was to fork the project," developer Nash Muhandes

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. "I don't want to see the GZDoom legacy die, as do most all of us, hence why I think the best thing to do is to continue development through a fork, while introducing a different development model that highly favors transparent collaboration between multiple people."

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