AI in XIV

[Kranel_San]

So, some time like two weeks ago or somewhere around there, AI stopped being a party trick for making stories from prompts or writing programming code and infiltrated every corner of the internet and every piece of smart™ technology worldwide. Or at least that was my impression because I can\\'t remember what happened two days ago, let alone a few weeks ago. Anyhoo, I had this silly thought that maybe like 90% of the characters we see in game are AI generated and controlled. They can probably even impersonate humans. Like I know some people who are definitely real because I know them IRL, and they say so little of substance and do so little of consequence in game that had I not known them personally, I could imagine that they\\'re AI bots invading the game, ya.

This is a joke post, but it\\'s interesting food for thought. The game itself is probably an AI, like the processing software that coordinates multiplayer content and such.

So, how many AI bots in the game? It\\'s probably not a horrible disaster.

I already had this idea in mind that in the future, there could be a genre called 'Fake MMOs' where it's an offline singleplayer game but can generate thousands of AI NPCs that act like players and you can interact with for trading, grouping up, chatting and so on to do some content.

It's not a bad idea. It might not be plausible now but it could be within 10 years and it saves up server infrastructure costs and such while also guaranteeing the "MMO" you play won't shut down because it simply cannot.