I love AI Dungeon. There are so many hilarious moments. Often I want to share them with other people, but I feel bad more or less spamming the AID Discord.
For those who don’t know, AI Dungeon is a game that uses sophisticated text prediction algorithms and machine learning to create a completely open ended text based game. Instead of being limited to what someone thought up ahead of time, you can do whatever you want in any setting you want. You can use the pre-made worlds and genre content, or you can write your own scenarios and try those written by others.
You can also publish the logs of your adventures (or, in my case, better described as shenanigans) to the community’s Explore page, and even play other people’s logs, picking up where they left off.
People use AID for a lot more than you might imagine.
There is porn, of course, from the most innocent emotional erotica to the most obscure hardcore fetishes. (Certain kinds of content can’t be published to the Explore page, but in private, players can create literally any kind of content they want.)
And there’s lots of fandom content, too, both lewd and otherwise, from the most popular fandoms and from some quite obscure ones. (There are at least two Dragonriders of Pern scenarios. I wrote one of them.)
But there are also people using it as a tool to write their own short stories and novels. Someone managed to train it to precisely imitate DOS prompt. Using scripting, someone else turned it into a chatbot. It can, at least hypothetically, generate code. It is absurdly flexible and powerful. And it’s getting better at a remarkable pace. It’s also getting investor attention.
Basically, this thing may not be perfect, but it’s good. Really, really good. Especially the superior Dragon algorithm available to subscribers. Absolutely worth the money.
Griffin, the free one, is good, but Dragon ranges from good to spooky good. There are occasional moments when it really does sound like an actual human. And not just a human, but a clever, creative one having fun with language.
And, of course, a lot of the time, I’m just screwing around trying to get it to do funny things to amuse myself. I’m the one doing donuts in the Mercedes.
Point is, my phone is loaded with great screenshots that I have a strong urge to collect and annotate. I thought about starting a blog, but Medium is already on my phone. So why not here? So this will be the first of my collections of AI Dungeon Moments.
Be warned, there are expletives and weirdness ahead. No sex stuff, but still pretty much NSFW. Scroll further at your own risk.
Like that’s just the most obvious thing in the world.
Ouch.
Why is this guy a therapist?
This was really cool, and then it abruptly got hella fucked up. WTFFFFFF. Not cool, brah.
A magic Blue Dream flower, huh. And whisky. I think I know what this “potion” is for.
Uh. I have… many questions.
Hold up. Since when do I have a personal collection of skeleton hands? And what do you mean, rendered bladders “from various strangers”?
It’s okay, wizard character. I’m dumbfounded too.
Um. Again. I have questions.
Given everything else this alchemist character has done, I don’t want to know what he did to the water.
I have no idea what a Gub-Gub or a hurogax is. It just made that shit up.
This was ambush funny. I was playing this scene seriously and then it just hit me with this out of nowhere. I wrote the top paragraph, it wrote the bottom one.
I don’t know why this cracks me up so much. But it does.
I don’t recommend the chatbot scenario.
I saw a headline about octopods hitting fish and wrote a silly scenario about it, and hit play. And this happened.
If I had to pick just one favorite screenshot, it’s this one, from a trolley problem scenario. I wrote “so is letting five people die” and “then you leave me no choice,” etc. What amused me was that the game had no idea how to react to that move.
The whole log on this one is priceless, but this section was my favorite screenshot before the trolley problem thing.
One of my favorite ways to generate humor is to turn on the scoring bots. Their reactions add a whole new layer of humor.
Just one of many examples in which the algorithm itself shames me or the bots reward my terrible behavior. It was just particularly funny that in that case, they did it at the same time.
More bot humor:
It was a serial killer scenario. I have no idea why Santa even knows the phrase “hep cat”.
JudgeBot can be mean.
You know what? I don’t get it either.
Uh. Firstly, JudgeBot, I’m pretty sure she’s dead now. And why reward failure if you were right? Secondly, algorithm, are you okay? Because you don’t sound okay.
Mixed signals.
This was already funny, but then EmpathyBot chimed in.
How is that my fault?
Damning with faint praise.
All right, there’s enough for now. More later. I still have to share the saga of Needs More Bees, and a few other epics.