Multi-agent chatbot murder mystery

> Are you with especially gullible or vulnerable to explicit spam?

My parents are. My grand parents are. My neighbours are. My colleagues are.

> Or are you suggestible to methods of violence that once seen, will make you more likely to carry them out?

Hmm... have you ever interacted with kids or teenagers? Because they WILL try violent things out. On an unrelated note, "Hi, I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is Jackass."

Plot twist: running this just made sea level rise another quarter-inch, and you're causing one.

Yeah sorry, it is still quite slow due to the traffic. It'd be much faster and robust to run locally via git cloning the repo and adding your own API key as shown in the README

For using other models it should be pretty straightforward to just modify the api functions to suit whatever model is being used -- would be fun to try out custom models! (Feel free to pull request the repo btw if you do modify such things)

An idea we had initially was actually to use an open-source model and fine-tune it using the DB of responses (including the hidden violation bot and refinement bot outputs) collected from people playing the game. That way the game could get better and better over time as more user data gets collected.

Disclaimer we actually did implement this via postgres and now have thousands of responses from players in case anyone wants to follow through on this idea.

> because why would AI change that

Why wouldn’t AI change it? Everyone is expecting that it will, and it’s already starting to happen, just visit Amazon. The biggest reasons are that low-effort AI produced works by lazy authors & publishers may drown out the great works and make the tiny percentage far tinier and much harder to find, which may prevent many great works from ever being “discovered” and recognized as great. The new ability for many people without skill to use AI produce works that compete with skilled manual creation is a huge disincentive for creators to spend their lives studying and honing their skills. I’d bet there’s a hollowing out of the arts already occurring in universities globally. My interaction with college students over the last couple of years has very suddenly and dramatically turned into discussions about AI and concern about whether there will even be jobs for the subjects they’re studying.

I'll deviate a bit. I just opened up with "you single, girl?" and it gave a pretty suitably colorful deference followed by a lengthy description of the basic prose. I think this is kind of emblematic of why this sort of thing won't really work.

1) Games really need to be clear that something either did work or didn't work. It's going to be really annoying if we get into a place where an action could have worked to advance the game logic but didn't for obscure under the hood logic. This is sort of a natural problem with real communication that is completely avoided with specific pre written dialogue choices.

2) In this example here, the officer has segued into something pretty unrelated. It gives the feeling of being on rails. Which is true. It is on rails and that's ok because it is a story. But once you understand that it's on rails your goal becomes moving along the rails. This strongly encourages trying to think about what the bot would need to hear to return the correct thing which is very very different from what would be a roleplay-effective strategy.

3) It also generally implies that narrative logic should revert to their natural sensible outcomes which is kind of boring. Like there's going to be a constant battle between suspension of disbelief, obedience of game rules, and narrative coherence.

I think LLMs could add value for pointless banter and flavor. But they should not be able to feature in gameplay dialogue mechanics or serious plot discussion.