You know one thing that #ChatGPT is going to be *huge* for?
Background dialog in video games.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to write dialog for guards and civilians in open world games? If you've ever taken an arrow to the knee, then you might have some sense of it.
But #AI can blow that out of the water, generating dozens of dialogue variations that say the same thing (or nothing at all) just a little bit differently for each voice actor, adding easy variety to a notoriously tedious and shitty writing job in #GameDev.
Of course, eventually it'll probably replace the voice actors too, which is far less ideal.
@lizzard Because main dialogue is a selling point. Quality matters there. Poor-quality writing can tank a game.
But in background dialog, quantity matters much more that quality.
@LouisIngenthron I don’t think I’ve ever heard a narrative designer complain about the difficulty of writing for background NPCs. Usually those tasks go to junior writers, which helps them refine their craft.
@piddlesworth The issue is less difficulty and more tedium. "How many ways can you think of to say 'I saw something suspicious'?" It's foisted off to junior writers because it's the shitty job on the totem pole for game writers, just like how user saveload and console compliance are foisted off to junior programmers.
Certain game genres definitely suffer from this far more than others, of course.
@LouisIngenthron I would say that the job is foisted on junior writers because coming up with a dozen ways to say “I see something suspicious” is a very good way to hone your craft.
@LouisIngenthron so I guess I’m saying the tedium is a feature, not a bug. 😆
@piddlesworth I would argue that tedium is an inhibitor to learning, not an enhancer.
@LouisIngenthron yehp, voice acting is screwed: http://elevenlabs.io/
@LouisIngenthron Hopefully, they won't emulate those media outlets which were caught spewing garbage, lol.
@LouisIngenthron the sad thing is that once you're there, why not use it for the main dialogue? And then jewels of writing like Disco Elysium become so much less probable, because why bother?