So I dug deeper into this...
It seems like the issue is that people are vibecoding scripts that scrape the data off of 1000s of public replays to then vibecode bots that learns off of them.
1. How does Riot even combat this?
2. Why does AI ruin literally everything?
The announced changes to replays are being delayed to patch 26.21.
We are working on a solution to ensure the creators and coaches out there that rely on replays are not meaningfully impacted by this change and want to have that in place before this goes live.
"safe" isn't wonderful because it's a technical marvel. "safe" is wonderful because you can understand the intent behind it. this is why art is better than a prompt.