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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't think most people will care, so long as their NPC interaction ends up compelling. We've been reading stories about people who don't exist for centuries, and that's stopped no one from sympathizing with them - and now there's a chance you could have an open conversation with them.

Like, I think alot of us assume that we care about the authors who write the character dialogs but I think most people actually choose not to know who is behind their favorite NPCs to preserve some sense that the NPC personality isn't manufactured.

Combine that with everyone becoming steadily more lonely over the years, and I think AI-generated NPC interactions are going to take escapism to another level.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Poem poem poem poem then the NPC start quoting Mein Kampf and killing all the cat wizards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lol, yeah. If generative AI text stays as shitty as it is now, then this whole discussion moot. Whether that will be the case has yet to be seen. What is an indisputable fact, though, is that right now is the worst that generative AI will ever be again. It's only able to improve from here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's only able to improve from here.

That isn't actually true. With the rise in articles, posts and comments written by these algorithms, experts are warning about model collapse. Basically, the lack of decent human-written training data will destroy future generative AI before it can even start.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

That's an interesting point. We are seeing a similar kind of issue with search engines losing effectiveness due to search engine optimization on websites.

So it is possible that generative AI will become enshittened.