Fuck AI

Right?

AI companies stole the collective knowledge, creative juices, and artistic endeavors of the internet, which was shared freely to expand human knowledge and artistry.

Now they wonder why we aren't willing to pay for their repackaged and pillaged slop...

I see a world where knowledge slowly gets hidden behind the choke hold of AI answers and paywalled sources. How do we hold the line?

No thanks, I don’t want all of the descriptions and dialogues to be low-quality semi-plagiarized nonsense blabber just to fill space. I don’t want modders spending their precious time massaging slop to be fairly relevant when they could just make bespoke content instead.

That's the thing. It can't be bespoke content, unless it's a quest mod. Rimworld situations are so dynamic they rarely fit the "mould" of something written ahead of time. Hence the placeholder dialogue you often see in base Rimworld is already autogenerated "nonsense blabber just to fill space"

That... and have you ever used small LLMs finetuned for writing? While not perfect, it's nothing like the slop you'd get out of, say, an OpenAI model. The finetuning datasets are open, and some of the base model datasets are open, too.

Think the critical thing would be to identify "background content" so that you don't spend forever trying to tease out actionable info from a background character.

That's the biggest thing is that while LLM can do 'flavor text', it's not very good at making sure that characters convey specific relevant detail reliably to a player.

I don't know about 'more realistic' though, LLM game demos can often go pretty out of character. Like a medieval setting NPC discussing coding. Or in one the character talked about how they had just came in from an outside walk, but they were chained in a dungeon cell. Another character talking about how the developer wrote them this way. Keeping an LLM "on the rails" of a scenario can break down.

Imagine if townsfolk could have realistic conversations and interactions like bartering over goods, etc. Nothing major or plot-dependent, obviously. Just something more natural than a handful of repeated, scripted and prerecorded phrases.

There's already a in-development Skyrim mod for that. Many sandbox games have mods for exactly this.

I haven't tried the Skyrim one though; haven't been in the Skyrim scene for awhile. And TBH, some of the mods use pretty sad or sloppy LLMs by default.