Quote (dannywanghere @ Jan 24 2024 01:41pm)
LLMs and generative AI are expanding rapidly. It is now very easy to make chat bots that respond like humans, you can even give them personalities using fine tuning or even just a prompt instruction. Over the next few years it will get easier and tools will improve.
Would you enjoy playing D2 with bots that pretend to be humans? We already have bots that can follow you and/or level themselves through the entire game.
Imagine future bots roaming public games hooked up to a chatbot API so that they talk back. Could maybe make up for the decline in player base.
An optimistic vision might be for someone to create a subscription service where you pay to have someone set up follower bots that you can invite into your games. A lot of people play like bots anyway so it might be hard to tell the difference
Yeh Blizz would ban hammer it eventually tho
Most fun I had on d2 ever was playing around w kolbot on LOD