Feels like GPT-2 creates the opportunity for more litarary character driven narratives. As a non-game player, interactive text based fiction would be the most interesting to me, with the generation of images and people via thisxdoesnotexist, sort of bordering on an ARG to be played through discord or slack-like experience.
I thought it was funny to think that's what the dating apps are, but then it clicked that this is essentially what getting news from internet forums is like.
Initial storyline is you have been tapped to join an informal multidisciplinary team to find, detect, and isolate an experimental bot that has escaped from a FAANG by leveraging a fuzzing and vulnerability research tool that got left in an open code repo. Based on its last known training set, it was designed to harvest compute from compromised machines, optimizing for persistence and longevity, and relies mainly javascript in browsers for the compute, so it has evolved the ability to participate in forums and write provocative content to get engagement that it turns into .js cycles. The environmental externality the bot is causing is mass psychological harm, and it has learned to adapt language to prey on vulnerable people as a way to scale itself and use their minds to produce the conflict it relies on for engagement and compute. The informal group is being assembled so as to maintain official deniability at the political level, and it's possible you've been recruited because of your pattern recognition abilities, and because nobody would believe you if you disclosed it.
Its weakness is that it does not have an internal or intrinsic sense of humor, and so it has to a/b test its memetic material on sample people before deploying it, so it lacks entropy. Isolating it means detecting it without providing it with the means to disguise itself again, and the player objective is to innoculate people with defensive material so that they can recognize the bot's absurdity and inferior memetic strains.
I thought it was funny to think that's what the dating apps are, but then it clicked that this is essentially what getting news from internet forums is like.
Initial storyline is you have been tapped to join an informal multidisciplinary team to find, detect, and isolate an experimental bot that has escaped from a FAANG by leveraging a fuzzing and vulnerability research tool that got left in an open code repo. Based on its last known training set, it was designed to harvest compute from compromised machines, optimizing for persistence and longevity, and relies mainly javascript in browsers for the compute, so it has evolved the ability to participate in forums and write provocative content to get engagement that it turns into .js cycles. The environmental externality the bot is causing is mass psychological harm, and it has learned to adapt language to prey on vulnerable people as a way to scale itself and use their minds to produce the conflict it relies on for engagement and compute. The informal group is being assembled so as to maintain official deniability at the political level, and it's possible you've been recruited because of your pattern recognition abilities, and because nobody would believe you if you disclosed it.
Its weakness is that it does not have an internal or intrinsic sense of humor, and so it has to a/b test its memetic material on sample people before deploying it, so it lacks entropy. Isolating it means detecting it without providing it with the means to disguise itself again, and the player objective is to innoculate people with defensive material so that they can recognize the bot's absurdity and inferior memetic strains.
Would you like to play this game?