I still spend a decent chunk of time on Reddit, but I've been pushed out of a lot of specific retro game communities by both the massive influx of AI-decomps and the immediate hostility if you voice your opinions against it. One walked back its "no generative AI" rule entirely last week. It's a bit depressing.

Or everything moves to cloud and no local software anynore

So far it's not doing it on its own... someone is telling AI to do it. We shouldn't take the people and operators out of AI usage.

In my view, AI is going to lead one of two things: A. All software becomes free, and closed source software becomes obsolete and no one will pay for it. B. Governments going full authoritarians to make sure their friends the corporations don't lose business, and my option A doesn't happen.

AI rendering emulators obsolete was not on my list of stuff that would be disrupted

Any AI I've asked to do this is completely dumb. I know more than it, and Im an amateur "hacker".

I don't think it's scary at all, but you do you.

DRM free games exist and yet people still buy games. And even if a decompilation works and works well, it's just the code, not the creative assets that would still be protected under law.

I enjoy doing reverse engineering from time to time, and at least for now being scared about this is like being scared of what people can do thanks to ghidra.

Dzuma is an interesting security minded fella on YouTube that has a balanced leaning positive view on what's real and what's hype. https://youtube.com/watch?v=DNS-4Wl7dY4