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Silent Hill Ascension Developer Insists It Was ‘Written by Real People’ Amid AI Accusations
28.11.2023 - 15:47 / ign.com / Jacob Navok / Ai
The developer of Silent Hill Ascension has insisted the controversial interactive streaming series was written by real people after a number of observers accused it of being authored by AI.
The group-based choose-your-own-adventure project, which lets some viewers appear as character cameos, initially came under fire for its microtransactions, with Genvid CEO Jacob Navok telling IGN that "the notion that users can 'win' by paying is generally false".
But more recently, a series of tweets from user @VoidBurger that called into question Ascension’s dialogue went viral for highlighting some odd lines as well as their odd delivery. Here’s a snippet:
Silent Hill Ascension is absolutely written by A.I. and I cannot be convinced otherwise. This random NPC pops in, declares he's berry hunting, says he's seen weird shit and does not expound on it, provides no information, leaves for more berries. Goodbye forever, BerryMan https://t.co/IrwahA1tuc
Catching up on Silent Hill Ascension (lol) and I am more and more convinced this was written by AI with each new "episode". The blandness in the writing is uniquely robotic feeling. I'd be shocked if a human wrote this boring shit pic.twitter.com/WUzAakbuDL
Old: "It's bread"
New: "I like to make jams" pic.twitter.com/GzVTdKrqIz
Responding, Navok tweeted to say that across the project’s 100,000+ words, “zero are authored by LLMs or AI, and all are from dedicated work of a talented team.”
Every word in Ascension was written by real people, many of whom have long-running careers in writing including Telltale titles, Pixar titles, GoW Ragnarok, Resident Evil Village and more. Across our 100,000+ words, zero are authored by LLMs or AI, and all are from dedicated work…
Still, questions about Ascension and AI continue, with some pointing to previous comments from Genvid that focus on the potential use of AI characters in the series.
genvid’s ceo jacob navok is on record saying all of their upcoming projects feature AI characters a few months before silent hill ascension was released
he also says ascension’s story is a “simulation”
the question isn’t if ascension uses AI - it’s how much https://t.co/uz8IKtKQgk pic.twitter.com/A3Td4qecYB
In a follow-up tweet, Navok admitted that while Genvid had tested the use of AI for Ascension, none of that work ended up being used, and called recent accusations "a veiled insult" to the developers.
“We ran tests several years ago to see whether AI could improve animation or cinematic production pipelines,” Navok said. “Generally the results weren't different than the animation you get in that Twitch Seinfeld show, which is to say, not great. Characters who were in the AI tests did a lot of repetitive movements (walking in circles, walking into walls,
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