Generative AI in Games Will Create a Copyright Crisis

AI Dungeon, a text-based fantasy simulation that runs on OpenAI's GPT-3, has been churning out weird tales since May 2019. Reminiscent of early text adventure games like Colossal Cave Adventure, you get to choose from a roster of formulaic settings--fantasy, mystery, apocalyptic, cyberpunk, zombies--before picking a character class and name, and generating a story. Here was mine: "You are Mr. Magoo, a survivor trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world by scavenging among the ruins of what is left. You have a backpack and a canteen. You haven't eaten in two days, so you're desperately searching for food."