In summer 2020, Jason Rohrer was fleeing wildfire smoke in California. He and his family drove to Nevada, then Arizona. Away from his desk, Rohrer was unable to continue his work, hand-drawing his latest video game.
So he started a “side project”. OpenAI had released GPT2, an early version of its large language model, but blocked people from talking back-and-forth with it. It took Rohrer a month to “trick” the interface so users could chat with the AI. He built some characters for people to talk to. He also allowed users to create their own.
Just as Rohrer subverted OpenAI’s plans, users subverted his. They started using his platform to create versions of their dead loved ones. Simulating the dead was “the killer app”, as he puts it
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