I'm just pondering how AI will integrate into gaming, which leads to the idea of an AI companion NPC.
This won't be a normal NPC relationship of course, it'll be enhanced by the interactions you share with this NPC.
But how much power would that give a gaming company over everything from DLC purchases to influencing your opinions in the real world?
Guh. This is all very cyberpunk.
We can think of more and more advanced AI NPC integrations as downright inevitable on a mass commercial scale. This isn't so much of a What If as it is a When.
There's also an inevitability that we being humans, some of us will anthropomorphize these NPCs and grow either attached to them, or something else.
Any of us who follow the gaming industry can see where this could lead. It may end up making loot boxes seem tame.
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