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OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Senior year of college, I took an elective seminar on interactive fiction. For the final project, one of my classmates wrote a program that scraped a LiveJournal and converted it into a text adventure game.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You are standing in an open field west of a
giant castle, with an ornate front door.
Your name is Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way.
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[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 2 points 3 days ago

DO NOT OPEN THE DOOR there's a weird sex scene inside I guarantee it

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

My own final project was a parody of the IMDb that was "what if the IMDb was about books instead of movies", except that the user reviews told stories about people who turned out to have all gone to high school together before scattering around the world, and reading them in the right sequence unlocked a finale in which they reunited for a New Year's party and their world dissolved so that their author could repurpose them for other stories.

[–] self@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago

fuck yes, why wasn’t my college this cool? all I got was an AI elective taught by a guy whose proudest achievement was having the only remaining Genera license on campus