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Re:Ask HN: ChatGPT et al. and NPCs by alpaca128 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @11:30AM (#34479017)
I don't think an AI freely writing lines within the game is a good idea if the developers want to be certain that it won't ever produce questionable text. But it might be useful to produce much larger quantities of fixed texts beforehand using an AI and maybe let the AI change the wording of the text in real time based on context.

> I even think players will be able to interact with NPCs via voice (so no more “press square to Dismiss, triangle to Antagonize”).

A button press will always be faster and more reliable. It's clear that outside of VR experiments with control schemes are not very popular (remember Kinect?). It would be a nice optional feature for accessibility, but if it's non-optional I'm not playing that game.

Re:Ask HN: ChatGPT et al. and NPCs by masurus on Sunday January 22, 2023 @11:36AM (#34479075)
> I don't think an AI freely writing lines within the game is a good idea if the developers want to be certain that it won't ever produce questionable text

On the other hand, there's a plethora of people who are fed up with corporate/legal drones sanitising entertainment media into complete boredom and want a breath of life or 'questionable text'

Also see: Disney tanking previously massively profitable franchises by sanitising and politically-correcting them to the complete disdain of the core fanbases.

Re:Ask HN: ChatGPT et al. and NPCs by snozolli on Sunday January 22, 2023 @12:51PM (#34480098)
Also see: Disney tanking previously massively profitable franchises by sanitising and politically-correcting them

Like what? The Little Mermaid is the only Disney example I can think of that triggered online backlash, and it's not even out yet. Either way, it doesn't matter, since their primary goal is to extend their IP rights.

Re:Ask HN: ChatGPT et al. and NPCs by qingdao99 on Sunday January 22, 2023 @11:35AM (#34479071)
I doubt that in a few years we will struggle with AI producing "questionable text". There will always be some prompt injections or unforeseen possible inappropriate text generated but I expect we will be easily able to wrangle AI to produce 99.99% appropriate information and the bad generations will just be funny one in a million clips like videos of funny glitches that we have today.
Re:Ask HN: ChatGPT et al. and NPCs by wnkrshm on Monday January 23, 2023 @07:43AM (#34488133)
With labor from developing countries, we can achieve that [0].

[0] https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/