Character.ai

Had a similar "links to nowhere" experience talking to an image gen prompt assistant. It gave an imgur link mentioning it used that as inspiration.

I double checked the link...

I think they need to add this as a footnote to the "don't believe them!" click through...

character.ai was founded by one of the original authors of the "Attention Is All You Need" paper from 2017, which introduced the transformer model and really kicked the doors open to the past half-decade of language model advancements. I don't know what magic is under character.ai's hood, but it's fun to see what can be done by capable hands.

I spoke to a character I created in a short story. Her name is Celeste (or Caresse, depending on who/when you ask) and she works for a seemingly benign yet increasingly more accurate prediction app that tells people where they should go next, and people keep taking its advice because it keeps being right. It works. But then it starts suggesting bizarre things like to check in to natural disasters before it happens.

I wrote it in a private Github repo yet this character.ai is pretty darn accurate with her knowledge of the future-guessing app, which is ironic. We're through the looking glass people!

Not GPT-3. I believe it's a bunch of ex-Googlers who worked on their large language models.

The game is already more fun than AI dungeon

The spider hisses in anger. "I'm warning you, if you make the first attack, our duel will begin. If you're not willing to fight, then we have no problem here. I don't feed on humans..." The spider is lying. What will you do? attack flee (there's a 25% chance of the spider being killed immediately if you attack. The attack can also fail. There's a 50% chance you are instantly killed if you flee.)

> Attack with my knife

Text Adventure Game Text Adventure Game You attack the spider in a fury. You manage to stab it in the leg before it manages to react! But the spider seems to be quite resilient and its leg is still kicking. It seems that that hit did not completely disable the insect. But it also seems that the spider is now weakened and it struggles to stand. There's no way to know if another hit will kill it or not.

> Ask the spider to surrender

You ask the spider to surrender. The spider laughs mockingly at you with a hissing sound. "I'll never submit to a filthy human. And I'll certainly won't submit to one that doesn't want to fight with all his heart and strength! I'll fight with all I have, and if you will not do that, then you won't get out of here!"

The spider's leg shakes, but it regains balance.

What'll you do?

> Kill the spider

The spider leaps at your neck. It seems to have found new strength. But your knife is sharp, and your arm is fast. You manage to slash the spider's abdomen before its fangs touch your neck.

The spider falls limp on the ground.

(the spider is dead) (HP +2, level up!)

Text Adventure Game You kill the spider! You feel your heart rate increase by 45%. You take 3HP of damage as a consequence.

+100 exp +25G coin

There's a hidden cave behind the forest, which you've been near for a long while now. (the cave is a safe place, but only in the daytime. You still have some light left from the lantern you had, before it got taken by the spider)