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Doom modders fall into civil war as devs launch new engine in protest at GZDoom creator's leadership and use of ChatGPT

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The future of GZDoom, the community-updated engine behind many thousands of brilliant Doom mods, is in doubt following a bust-up over the lead developer's use of generative AI to create code. The fracas has seen a number of GZDoom developers announce plans to splinter off and maintain their own engine, UZDoom.

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