AI Dungeon is a text based adventure game which utilizes the powerful GPT-3 AI to generate open ended adventure content. In typical black mirror style, the game came under controversy when users started generating some serious NSFW content.

With limitless open-ended storylines, you can pretty much lead the adventure wherever your want! As the narrator, you can control the AI generated story line through 3 main tools:

• Do: directs the AI what the character does next
• Say: directs the AI what the character should say next
• Story: directs the AI on the changing context of the story

This game was brought to my attention after the creators added a new content moderation algorithm in April 2021. As so often happens with open-world simulation, users take the content in a sexual direction. I think nothing gives a better clarity into this phenomenon than the famous episode of black mirror, “striking vipers” (Season 5 – Episode 1).

However, I chose to write about this game because it is a big deal for AI! This is one of the first implementations of a game which is almost entirely built around an artificial intelligence engine. Today it is text only, tomorrow it will include images (learn about DALL-E, an AI that generates images from text), and finally even videos!

We are most likely not so far away from movies being “guided” by humans, and generated by artificial intelligence.