Silent Hill: Ascension developer Genvid Entertainment has publicly claimed its interactive TV series spin on the survival franchise hasn't been written using AI. Suggestions it has were doing the rounds on Twitter after viewers shared bizarre conversations and interactions between characters that made little to no sense.
In response, CEO Jacob Navok said the following: "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." He then says all of the 100,000 words that make up Silent Hill: Ascension are from a "talented team", not "LLMs or AI".
A follow-up tweet explains how Genvid Entertainment had actually been experimenting with AI "several years" ago to see how it could improve animation and cinematic production pipelines, but "none of that work ended up being used on this [Silent Hill: Ascension] or other projects". However, it has been noticed that Navok discussed the use of AI characters in upcoming projects a few months before Silent Hill: Ascension debuted.
The accusations spiral from a series of tweets from Twitter user @Voidburger (formally of Giant Bomb) who "cannot be convinced otherwise" the series is written using AI. The Twitter thread below is worth scrolling through as it neatly summarises some of the strange interactions within Silent Hill: Ascension that have triggered some viewers to believe AI is involved.
According to Jacob Navok, CEO at Genvid Entertainment, though, this isn't the case at all. What's your take on the accusations and can you make sense of the weird and bizarre interactions from the Twitter thread above? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
[source twitter.com, via ign.com]
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SH Ascension shows Konami is still trash and only cares about money. Also that is 100% AI written, no matter how hard this guy tries to convince you otherwise.
Considering it's VoidBurger, I'm more convinced she's blowing something way out of proportion to her perpetually online followers and friends again. Konami is trash and Ascension is embarrassing, but terrible writing doesn't automatically equal AI.
It’s probably not a good thing if you have to say this but I’d like to hope the writers would step forward and say that they actually wrote the game. Look at Sports Illustrated, there’s entire authors turning out to not be real, and in fact just AI constructs.
That video just sold me on the show. I had read that it was awful, but that’s beyond awful to the point of funny. I want to see more of this.
Always a good sign when people have to come out and say: "No, no, an AI didn't write this. For realz."
I think what might be going on is that the writers are trying to emulate the Lynchian, disassociative style of dialogue from the classic Silent Hill games, but failing.
I would've went along with it a blamed AI rather than admit people actually wrote this *****
Either A.I. or NPCs wrote it. The "return" of Silent Hill couldn't be more trash. Fingers crossed they pull of something good with SH2 Remake.
Uhm, have any of you played the OG resident evil or something like countdown vampires!? Dialogue like this fits perfectly within the ps1 and ps2 era, long before AI. Even these days with games like wanted dead.
Just some attention seeking "gamer" blowing something out of proportion, the studio should have never deemed it worthy to respond to such a mouthbreather.
“I like to make jams.” I’m guessing these berries are naturally fermented.
It’s pretty sad we are at the point where people have to say their work isn’t written by AI’s. Depressing really
Every word in this post was written by a real human. And yet, I still haven't bothered towatch SILENT HILL: Ascension.....
Didn't the devs initially say they were going to put certain players/users into the story? Maybe that explains the random NPC? It did say the character was played by someone called CrimsonRain722
I watch that for giggles. Works flawlessly
It’s clearly not written by an AI, an AI woukd write more sensical dialogue than “hello man with shotgun, why am I lurking around in the woods at night? I make jam sometime. Farewell forever”
I hated Ascension, then decided to give it a shot, and once I saw about 2 minutes of it and the atrocious UI for the "game" I was out of there quicker than this berry dude.
Great concept for a game but this is not something you should be doing with Silent Hill. Don't mix oil and water. Someone who actually knows AND CARES about the Silent Hill franchise would've understood that before even pitching this idea in the first place, never mind green-lighting it.
Signed,
-Can't wait for Silent Hill 2 Remake
Tons of stuff written by "real people" is garbage also. Human or Ai... no guarantee of quality either way. Just use whatever version is better.
No need to freak out each time there is a new tool in the creative field. You use it, if it does not work - you stop using it.
They sure as ***** could've fooled me, with that atrocious writing.
I think I would prefer if they would come out and say it's AI than to think people actually wrote this thing.
AI was written... by real people.
That's a pretty big insult for a team of writers to have their work mistaken for AI. I bet it has been painful for them to see all these tweets from crappy people.
@BacklogBrad sad internet people love nothing more than to hate on things. Just like old people yelling at everyone because they're unhappy with getting old and having no one in their lives.
Those people shouting "it's so bad this has to be AI!!", how many video games have they played over the years? This exchange isn't any worse or more nonsensical than a lot of stuff I've seen in games, especially in the 90s or early 2000s.
People on the internet sure love drama and hysterics, but the most likely explanation is just that it's poor writing, as is the case in the overwhelming majority of dialogue we've seen and still see in the gaming industry. But I guess that explanation isn't exciting enough.
Although some scripts can appear to be written by AI, most people are still traditional. But, you could get great results with A if used correctly.
Its true, many AI roles will help most people get a job without a degree..
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