As fake players become more common, anti-cheat developers are fighting back.

FiveM servers already have "AI Pedestrians" and "AI Traffic" (the random cars and people walking around Los Santos). These are part of the game engine's ambient background. are different. They appear in the playerlist , take up player slots, and trick the FiveM launcher into thinking the server is busy.

FiveM — the popular multiplayer modification framework for GTA V — lets server owners customize gameplay, economy, and roleplay. One increasingly common and controversial practice is using “fake players” (also called bot players, NPC farms, or dummy users) to simulate activity on a server. This post explains what fake players are, why operators use them, the problems they create, and practical ways to detect and limit them.

to register "ped" entities as active players in the server’s metadata. External Botting:

To combat the issue of fake players, FiveM developers and moderators have implemented various measures, including: