alt Hacker NewsWow, I'd visit play.net from time to time to get that nastalgic dopamine hit. Sad to see that's gone.
LLMs could really make this genre incredible. Too bad they probably don't have the funding to do something with it.
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Cthulhu_ • last Thursday at 9:21 AM
How would they? LLM can generate content, sure, but do MUDs need more content?
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bovermyer • last Thursday at 11:38 AM
Keep your AI slop out of my human-crafted adventures, please.
If you want an LLM-created text adventure, by all means, go and enjoy that yourself. I want no part of it.
No, they could not actually.
The important thing is to relate to other humans and to be sure of what kind of human you're interacting with: the creators of the game or other players.
The staleness that actually "shipping once"[0] gives is precisely the space where human player creativity grows and thrives in.
---- [0] I understand you can get the similar results and better base games if you patch things occasionally, but constant patches[1] hides the jank and repetitiveness with novelty.
[1] And dynamically creating "content" with LLMs is like a constant stream of patches.