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Friday Fun Thread for December 5, 2025

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I watched ~10 minutes from the middle of the first video and this looks super fake. There's no way a small/fast model could seamlessly navigate a 3d space using wasd+mouse (which is extremely complicated compared to the controls available to a self driving car), and then it goes and does things like jumping over a wall that was visually obstructed without pausing for a second. It also switches between using shift and right click to dash, which makes absolutely no sense for an agent to do.

If they wanted to fake it, why go to all this effort making video that backs up their claims? Why would bytedance even try to fake it, they're a company the size of facebook, an AI leader, not even publicly traded, they have no need for prestige or investor hype (of which this has gotten roughly zero with its 224 views on youtube).

It's a model with over a thousand hours of training for exactly this kind of 3d space movement, in this very game, I see no reason why this shouldn't work. Claude's struggles with pokemon are because it's a general-purpose model, not a pokemon specialist.

Also I don't see what's wrong with the clip of video you linked. It looks like a character getting over a perfectly visible wall to me?

which makes absolutely no sense for an agent to do

Yeah no agents make sense. Sometimes they delete the D drive. Sometimes they have depressive meltdowns. Sometimes they want to take a break and look at pictures of the zoo. Switching between shift and right click is not a big worry.