A little less sophisticated, but I've done something similar with Langchain4j and Quarkus. Ok, without the books. Just a Dungeon Master guiding you. But it's easier than one thinks to build stuff like this.
https://open.substack.com/pub/myfear/p/ai-dungeon-master-qua...
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#22How do tools like this avoid what I see in many of these types of narrative chat bots: the user becomes the only one steering the narrative, and the AI ends up just an obedient responder? Whenever I try these things it ends up very predictable, shallow, and repetitive, especially as time goes on. And if I have to prompt the AI to be creative or act differently... is that really acting different?
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#23Harry potter Matilda - are you sure there’s no legal risk here ? ( independently of the coolness of the project)
As long as the prompt and Gemini's own training data is all they're using, they're safe.
Gemini allows users to create instances (gems) preloaded with a document, but I don't think this is doing that, given that it (apparently) can use your own API key.
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#24Very cool! I recently built a config based AI dungeon master/generative game, https://github.com/derekburgess/dungen
This seems interesting. What plans do you have for it?
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#25How do tools like this avoid what I see in many of these types of narrative chat bots: the user becomes the only one steering the narrative, and the AI ends up just an obedient responder? Whenever I try these things it ends up very predictable, shallow, and repetitive, especially as time goes on. And if I have to prompt the AI to be creative or act differently... is that really acting different?
Unfortunately this is the fundamental flaw.
I liken it to playing Minecraft on creative mode.
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#26Neat, but it has problems following in-universe rules, i.e. fantasy novels.
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#27Don't use copyrighted books. Use Gutenberg for these kind of tools.
Don't comply in advance. Transformative uses like this are fair use until adjudicated otherwise.
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#28If art is communication- and i believe it is- why would i want to read or listen to anything AI generated? Once you are done with consuption there is no point in reflecting on it nor having a conversation about it with other fellow humans. People are not even interested in each others dreams most of the time. Unless the machine is of godlike intelligence there is just zero point.
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#29If art is communication- and i believe it is- why would i want to read or listen to anything AI generated? Once you are done with consuption there is no point in reflecting on it nor having a conversation about it with other fellow humans. People are not even interested in each others dreams most of the time. Unless the machine is of godlike intelligence there is just zero point.
You're making a false assumption that other people cannot enjoy what you're talking about unless they've experienced it themselves. If one has good storytelling skills and a solid theory of mind (concern for the listener), almost anything can be interesting. Even dreams.
I also disagree with your conclusion that an activity only has a point if discussed with others. A good deal of the best experiences in my life are things that were for my benefit alone, that I never thought to share with anyone else. And I'm a pretty social guy.
Re: Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game
#30If art is communication- and i believe it is- why would i want to read or listen to anything AI generated? Once you are done with consuption there is no point in reflecting on it nor having a conversation about it with other fellow humans. People are not even interested in each others dreams most of the time. Unless the machine is of godlike intelligence there is just zero point.
> Once you are done with consuption there is no point in reflecting on it nor having a conversation about it with other fellow humans.
If you believe that art is communication (and I do) why _wouldn't_ you want to reflect on it or discuss it post 'consumption'?