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Author here. A short story, about 2,700 words (~10 minutes).

AI statement: this story was co-written with Claude Opus 5.5 over a long back-and-forth session.

Mine: the premise, the plot and its structure, the characters' arcs, and many of the lines that carry the story. I've had the idea for over a decade. I also wrote or rewrote many passages directly, and cut a lot of what didn't work.

Claude's: the first drafts of most of the prose, written from my notes and then revised through many rounds of my edits and rejections. Some ideas and lines were Claude's, which I kept or reworked, including the company name, the fake film titles and a few of the README's jokes.

This AI statement was drafted by the same Claude session that helped me write the story. Yes, I'm aware of the irony.

Thanks!

Btw if you have a second leave a review/comment on the itch.io page!

Yeah sorry for that. It should be working now

Hey! I am the developer of this game! Thank you for sharing it! If the chat goes a bit slow, it's because it's suddenly getting more players than expected :P

After using several sites that allow conversations with AI characters, I realized how terribly unrealistic they were. A typical chat would go like this:

Me: Hey

Other: "Hey..." He looked at you, his face still a deep crimson, looking into your eyes, trying to say something but unable to speak, (yadda yadda yadda).

I swear, ALL the services I tried were like this. I realized there was nothing that really simulated a good old-fashioned chatting experience. So, I created the titled site.

I put most of my effort into making the chat as realistic as possible. I think I've reached a pretty good level— the experience feels very much like chatting on Omegle (minus the pervs).

Also, to make the interactions realistic, the AIs pretend to be from specific parts of the world—they have their lives, their hobbies, their quirks, and if you save them and talk with them later on, they'll remember what you talked about.

Anyway, I am aware there is quite some backlash against generative AI in many places on the web. I understand the hate towards simple LLM wrappers. I hope people can appreciate the (substantial) effort behind trying to make a standard LLM as realistic as possible. :) This is also my first web app, so I am totally open to feedback/suggestions/etc.

(also sorry for the limited free chatting time - I do pay the LLMs and I don't use a shitty model, so I can't give away much free time per user or I'll go bankrupt!)

I don't mind technical fiction, and I love a good hard scifi, but I guess the part of science I am most interested on (when I read literature) is the psychological one - Blindsight is by far my favourite sci-f. However I am totally up for trying Accellerando, so thank you for the reccomendation, you sold it to me :P

ok so I've been hearing of this for a while. Seems to be somehow similar to Diaspora, which I didn't enjoy that much and I have currently put on hold (I am around halfway through). Wonder if I would like it.

Needing a full feature programming language for things purely related to the page aesthetic is not a great idea.

The reasoning: some hosting platforms allow you to personalize your personal page changing the HTML and CSS bits, but not the JS - for security reason, obviously. Itch.io is an exmaple of that, where you can personalize your game and profile. By using CSS animations I can create cool effects without any of the security concern that allowing access to JS gives me. It makes sense and it's nice to be able to do so.

mesmerizing. But I remember seeing this long time ago. Is this a new version?

straight to the point without any fuss. well done

this is such a great experience. Thanks for that

I agree. At birth a human is much less capable than most animals - but the learning algorithm is so much better that they'll surpass any other non-human organisms in 2 years. This is honestly amazing an one of the best thing to witness when you are a parent. It's baffling - not only seeing your child learn new things, but also witnessing the ever increasing pace at which they learn new things.

interesting. Not specifically relevant to this regex implementations but I would say that regexes are one of those things that I never could really get into my head. I tried for many years but can't memorize the pattern needed, and can't write anything on my own but the most simplex regexes. I used to envy people that could do that. It's mostly about how your own memory work, I guess. Luckily recently I don't have to remember any of this anymore thanks to llms.