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kdkdjfjejd··on I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me
Why would anyone want to have an LLM generate content in a game when people can barely stomach it generating awful pictures and generic prose?

Who would want to have a non-deterministic, unreliable, out-of-your-control companion in a single player game?

What kind of game designer would find it acceptable to have no control over large swathes of their own game? Who would like to play a game that no one really created?

Games are where art meets engineering to create entertainment and awe. LLMs don’t fit.

kdkdjfjejd··on I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me
Hopefully it’s a copper arresting you for walking around pointing cameras at people’s faces without permission.
kdkdjfjejd··on I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me
Indeed. Can’t wait until they sell me a subscription to a game that I will just look at while an AI plays and has fun for me. Whee! Awesome times ahead indeed.

Or maybe it won’t play the game for me but will do whatever it wants, mess up about my gameplay because it inferred it should do something I did not order it to do.

Either way, awesome! Lovely gaming experience. I remember being a kid and thinking “wouldn’t it be so much more fun it if I didn’t have to actually play the game?”.

kdkdjfjejd··on I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me
Except it is not a dog. It is an AI. It’s a character in the game.

People often love to fus ro dah Skyrim companions off of cliffs because they can be incompetent annoying little dumb things that won’t shut up.

The character taking on canine form won’t suddenly make gamers more likely to put up with it messing about their gameplay. Thats just not how things work.