Re:Truly intelligent enemies could change the face of gaming
by andrewflnr on Sunday May 28, 2017 @08:26PM
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> but I just consider fiction to be seperate from reality by category
This is a circular argument. Whether a sentient NPC is, in fact, still fiction is the entire question.
The story in the game is fictional, but at some point the medium bottoms out on something with physical reality. The risk is of the medium of the story having rights. The nearest real-world analogue would be if you were trying to put on a realistic Hamlet, so you get some clone people to play the people who die and then you actually kill them. Is that murder? That they died in the course of producing entertainment.
This is a circular argument. Whether a sentient NPC is, in fact, still fiction is the entire question.
The story in the game is fictional, but at some point the medium bottoms out on something with physical reality. The risk is of the medium of the story having rights. The nearest real-world analogue would be if you were trying to put on a realistic Hamlet, so you get some clone people to play the people who die and then you actually kill them. Is that murder? That they died in the course of producing entertainment.