"Uncanny Stardew Valley AI mod replaces its lovely villagers with '33 provided brains'"

[kane_magus]

Not every game needs to have their NPC scripts ripped out and replaced with LLM/AI things. While I'm sure there are games out there that would greatly benefit from it, I don't think that Stardew Valley is one of them.

That said, it doesn't harm me in any way if anyone else wants to use that mod. I don't feel nearly as strongly about it as the writer of that article seems to, nor does it creep me out or whatever. If anything, it's already starting to just feel banal to read about mods that replace a game's characters with LLM/AI things.

Honestly, I'm getting to the point of being ready for this LLM/AI "fad" to run its course and be done, already. I don't think it's actually a fad, as I think this shit is probably here to stay, but it certainly has some fad-like characteristics. I'm especially tired of the whole "shoehorning LLM/AI into things where LLM/AI really has no business being shoehorned" thing.

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[scissorsevered]

Considering how the quality of LLMs is steadily dropping due to it pulling nonsense information from every corner of the internet, their usage is likely going to drop, and it will just become another thing that people check out when they're bored.

[kane_magus]

That's pretty much what they were prior to ChatGPT becoming a thing, like when it was just AI Dungeon (at least before AI Dungeon went to crap) or NovelAI (at least before NovelAI got into the image generation stuff that I don't care about and started neglecting the text gen part). The advent of ChatGPT was when everything went nuts. I wouldn't mind if they all went back to being mere novelties again.