"Gault is a self-described "certified AI hater," though he concedes that LLM technology is useful in certain instances (I agree to disagree with Gault's assertion that offloading transcription to an environmentally catastrophic machine built on stolen labor saves valuable time and energy). Gault's friends were turned off by the difficulty of Escape from Tarkov , an extraction shooter which came out of early access last November. He described playing by himself as lonely."
"What started as a joke quickly became more sincere. Gault found he genuinely enjoyed playing with his Quest.AI companion, Wolf. "It was, I thought, not unlike playing with a friend who has more than 1,000 hours in the game and knows more than you. Wolf bantered, referenced community in-jokes, and it made me laugh." Gault was surprised and concerned by his own enjoyment of the chatbot, his previous confusion over how people could fall victim to AI psychosis replaced by understanding."
A games writer failed to recruit friends for Escape from Tarkov and experimented with replacing them using an AI chatbot. The writer describes being a self-described "certified AI hater" yet acknowledges some utility in large language model tools. The Quest.AI companion, Wolf, delivered knowledgeable, bantering company and produced genuine amusement, reducing feelings of loneliness while playing. The experience prompted surprise and concern about personal susceptibility to AI psychosis, and the writer decided not to continue using Quest.AI. The writer's real friends mocked the experiment by ironically using another LLM, ChatGPT.
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