This source does not support your assertions.

Is there documentary evidence of this

What were the protests about?

That would be a fun can of worms

What if you found a portal to a parallel universe? What if you could slide into a thousand different worlds? Where it’s the same year, and you’re the same person... but everything else is different? And what if you can’t find your way home?

There is no reason to believe that it thinks or reasons—indeed, every AI researcher and vendor to date has repeatedly emphasised that these models don’t think.

Geoffrey Hinton, for one

Love the switch. The only reason I'm still a console gamer at all.

What was this program?

Good question. Presumably games like this will have a server that is proprietary, and the compulsion may simply be to make the server source or executables available, rather than creating anything new

Man THIS is what the Internet was all about

Who is going to bother astroturfing beehaw, right before we switch platforms of all things

Ditto