AI dungeon, a gpt2 product on iOS. Had almost no context, no memory, but could generate endless slop story. It was the first time I’d seen something like that, and the wild implications felt clear. I wasn’t aware at the time how immense the computational needs were to run the tech as it grew and the social implications, but just couldn’t believe that something like the MUDs I’d played in the late 80s early 90s could be autogenerated in a way now. It had no guardrails like now to prevent it from adopting a personality and so on, so it was in some ways more interesting than what the general public has now.