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With the ever fastening rise of AI technology and the possibilities it brings in the fields of interactive content, I wondered how we would deal with the slowly encroaching question of; How will we deal with AI (Or more precisly, intelligent chatprograms) incorporated directly into Fiction?
This question cropped up in my mind after finding a small indie game called "Depersonalization". The game itself isnt anything radical, its a classic RPG set in a Lovecraftion setting. What is radical and new though is the usage of AI within the game, or better said, the planned usage. To quote the developers from their own Discord Server:
As you can see, the only thing stopping them from implementing a character (Yog-Sothoth is a key character in the game) who uses AI technology to answer questions the players might ask it, is simply knowhow and technology limitations from the team.
Setting the moral and ethnic discussions of AI technology aside, because this conversation is not about that, I'm sure some people can already tell what future issues we specifily might face; In a future, but not far version of the game, a AI, a canon and integral part of the game, can answer powerscaling related questions with the quality of probably Chatbot. The AI program you can currently gaslight into believing factually wrong things.
In future, AI will probably open up avenues for some headache inducing powerscaling practises. The authority of the AI will stand and fall with the factual information its developers have fed it with and that might not stop it from conjuring up bullshit about the setting and plot either.
So the most easiest answer is to just forbid users from using statements produced by such a AI from being used as evidence right? But... what if developers design a whole series around a Chatbot being the defacto storytelling authority? What if the AI is decreed word of god by word of god? And tons of other questions that currently might have relevancy, as this is a brand new concept barely conjured up by new developers and writers, but will become questions we must solve in the future.
Which is not the goal of this thread. Right now, it wont be a issue, so I'm doing this more so for interest, so I wish for a open conversation with the community.
This question cropped up in my mind after finding a small indie game called "Depersonalization". The game itself isnt anything radical, its a classic RPG set in a Lovecraftion setting. What is radical and new though is the usage of AI within the game, or better said, the planned usage. To quote the developers from their own Discord Server:
As you can see, the only thing stopping them from implementing a character (Yog-Sothoth is a key character in the game) who uses AI technology to answer questions the players might ask it, is simply knowhow and technology limitations from the team.
Setting the moral and ethnic discussions of AI technology aside, because this conversation is not about that, I'm sure some people can already tell what future issues we specifily might face; In a future, but not far version of the game, a AI, a canon and integral part of the game, can answer powerscaling related questions with the quality of probably Chatbot. The AI program you can currently gaslight into believing factually wrong things.
In future, AI will probably open up avenues for some headache inducing powerscaling practises. The authority of the AI will stand and fall with the factual information its developers have fed it with and that might not stop it from conjuring up bullshit about the setting and plot either.
So the most easiest answer is to just forbid users from using statements produced by such a AI from being used as evidence right? But... what if developers design a whole series around a Chatbot being the defacto storytelling authority? What if the AI is decreed word of god by word of god? And tons of other questions that currently might have relevancy, as this is a brand new concept barely conjured up by new developers and writers, but will become questions we must solve in the future.
Which is not the goal of this thread. Right now, it wont be a issue, so I'm doing this more so for interest, so I wish for a open conversation with the community.