![]() ![]() We’re excited to announce the beta release of the next evolution of AI powered experiences, AI Dungeon 2D. Just as games in the past started with text and moved to more immersive mediums we saw that this new evolution of experiences would go through the same evolution that games did decades ago. By taking the right steps to protect users, and the integrity of their product, from highly inappropriate content, Latitude is at least working to ensure the program does not continue to add offensive content to stories, and can hopefully maintain its status as a largely safe, albeit strange, experiment in text-based gaming.From the beginning of AI Dungeon we’ve dreamed of the future of living dynamic experiences built with AI. AI Dungeon produces bizarre stories that might be worth a laugh, and perhaps someday, AI storytelling might advance closer to respectability. Its text-based stories remain a peculiar oddity, more akin to the “bad physics, bad controls,” sub-genre of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator and Surgeon Simulator, where the goal of the game is not an immersive experience, but a farcical depiction of combat and surgery, respectively. While video games have came a long way in procedural generation of maps and environments, AI Dungeon shows that they have a long way to go before they can approximate a human storyteller. AI Dungeon can lead to some amusing anecdotes, but the nature of the program does not currently lend to proper storytelling and world-building. Games like D&D can help youths develop storytelling skills and exercise imagination. ![]() The AI Dungeon experience is similar to the Charlie Kaufman film I’m Thinking Of Ending Things, with names and backstories constantly being reassigned on a whim by the AI storyteller. This can be an amusing experience for some players, but also unsettling at times, as the plot and setting changes without warning or reason, story contradictions abound, and a coherent narrative rarely emerges. Even when the program is well regulated against offensive content, the stories generated are garbled and incoherent, more often than not. The game is rated as 17+ on app stores, due in part to the ongoing nature of AI moderation as a perpetual work in progress, and the inherent problems of AI Dungeon’s word association-based procedural story generation. Regardless of its source, the content the program generated certainly called for safeguards.ĭespite these changes, AI Dungeon is probably still not suited for children to play. Some AI Dungeon community members stress that the origin of these inappropriate stories may be from the database of entirely human-generated narratives that the developers used to train AI Dungeon, not subsequent users of the AI Dungeon program itself. AI Dungeon knows that certain words and phrases have been associated in the past, and offers new content accordingly, often at the expense of a coherent plotline, but also, prior to the safeguards, in some unacceptable directions. AI Dungeon does not enter into a scenario with an entire imagined narrative in mind, like a human Dungeon Master running a Dungeons & Dragons game might. Some players note these occurrences are an ongoing problem, although in theory the new safeguard system should flag such instances. Due to AI learning, prior to the implementation of these new safeguards, some players noted that innocuous situations involving child characters would become sexualized without any player prompting in that direction. The response from Latitude is a thorough one, and while it shows the developers seem to have the right priorities, AI Dungeon is still an often-unpredictable experience. ![]()
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