It should come as no surprise I hate AI and everything about it, but how is this going to help people? Is boosting the cost for graphics cards, ram, and other essential parts supposed to help people? And what are they even doing with all that it has been proven that AI bots like Chat GPT are getting dumber and have just become money pits?

So for over a decade a project has been in place: Myrient. This little known site has been in place to preserve games, magazines, advertisements, and pretty much everything gaming related, but it came out a few days ago that due to AI the server costs are much higher than before, added to that people who used the site (which is completely free btw) tried to profit off it, then people tried to get past the donation pop up or have it removed entirely, and finally, the creator really didn’t want forced adds on the site (with good reason as many would have seen that as profiting off someone else’s work and Nintendo would come with a ban hammer and legal threats).

People are now scrambling to download over 300 GB of gaming history just to preserve it and archive everything, but this is just another example of gaming being negatively affected by an effectively useless product that stated it would help only to hurt. Anything an AI can do, humans have been doing for years and better than it. I trust AI with grammar and spelling, but hate that people are too lazy to be creative and that has eventually led to this situation: A money pit with nothing to gain.

Scourse:

JustSaySteven. “AI is Affecting Video Game Preservation Now.” YouTube, uploaded by JustSaySteven, 01, March, 2026, https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aJW8_OYe4Ek