If I ever became an indie developer I might have some basic anti piracy detection that triggers some form of joke cutscene but makes the game playable so nobody ever tries to patch it out
Basically in CRT screens, the arm that zapped the glass of the screen needed to stop zapping the screen and return to the top again. So there was a gap in the broadcast to let this happen. Some engineers saw this gap and decided to put data in there. Originally for subtitles, but they realised they can make an entire news service with it.
I think AI works well as an assistant for creative problems. But businesses are shoving large language models on everything they can think of. It's basically a fad.