As Magoo’s tale shows, the player propels the story with action, dialog, and descriptions AI Dungeon reacts with text, like a dungeon master-or a kind of fantasy improv. So who wrote the tale? And who gets paid for the work?ĪI Dungeon was created by Nick Walton, a former researcher at a deep learning lab at Brigham Young University in Utah who is now the CEO of Latitude, a company that bills itself as “the future of AI-generated games.” AI Dungeon is certainly not a mainstream title, though it has still attracted millions of players. I’ve created a story using my imagination-but to do that I’ve used an AI helper. You haven’t eaten in two days, so you’re desperately searching for food.” So began Magoo’s 300-ish-word tale of woe in which, “driven half-mad” by starvation, he happens upon “a man dressed in white.” (Jesus? Gordon Ramsay?) Offering him a greeting kiss, Magoo is stabbed in the neck.Īs lame as this story is, it hints at a knotty copyright issue the games industry is only just beginning to unravel. Magoo, a survivor trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world by scavenging among the ruins of what is left. Reminiscent of early text adventure games like Colossal Cave Adventure, you get to choose from a roster of formulaic settings-fantasy, mystery, apocalyptic, cyberpunk, zombies-before picking a character class and name, and generating a story. Yuuji/Getty Images reader comments 87 withĪI Dungeon, a text-based fantasy simulation that runs on OpenAI’s GPT-3, has been churning out weird tales since May 2019.
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