Virtual Twitch Streamer Is Controlled Entirely By AI (vice.com) 14
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Every day between 6 to 11 pm GMT, Neuro-sama streams herself playing Minecraft and osu, a musical rhythm game. Like many V-tubers, or virtual YouTubers, Neuro-sama appears as a Japanese anime-style character who interacts with her over 50,000 followers by responding to their comments in the chat. But there's one thing that separates Neuro-sama from her peers: she is controlled entirely by AI. [...] Vedal, the AI's pseudonymous creator, says that Neuro-sama was created as a fun experiment. "I made her a Twitch streamer so that she can interact with her audience in real time. A lot of the fun comes from her interactions with Twitch chat," Vedal told Motherboard. "I think the fans play an important role in her success and how fun her streams are. Having the interactions with Twitch chat are what makes her entertaining to watch, without that I don't think she would be as successful." Neuro-sama often impresses online users with her ability to successfully play games such as Minecraft and osu while also interacting with them in a conversational way. Vedal told Motherboard that Neuro-sama has already beaten the top-ranking osu player in a 1 v. 1 game. Though she is not allowed to be ranked on the main osu leaderboard, Neuro-sama is currently ranked number one on the private server she plays on.
Neuro-sama's earliest incarnation was first created in 2018, when Vedal made an AI that learned to play osu. But at the time, the virtual streamer did not have an avatar or speaking capabilities. Relaunched in December 2022, Vedal used a free sample avatar from Live2D, an online avatar maker, and paired it with an anime-style voice to create Neuro-sama. Vedal said that there are plans for her to get her own custom avatar and for her to play more games in the future. Like many modern AI chatbots, Vedal says Neuro-sama was made using a large language model, or LLM, a type of AI model trained from massive amounts of text taken from the open internet. As Motherboard has previously reported, many open-source AI models have a high propensity for human bias, and often mimic racist and sexist stereotypes. So while Neuro-sama's streams are 100 percent automated, Vedal has a team that monitors and moderates her and the chat.
Neuro-sama's earliest incarnation was first created in 2018, when Vedal made an AI that learned to play osu. But at the time, the virtual streamer did not have an avatar or speaking capabilities. Relaunched in December 2022, Vedal used a free sample avatar from Live2D, an online avatar maker, and paired it with an anime-style voice to create Neuro-sama. Vedal said that there are plans for her to get her own custom avatar and for her to play more games in the future. Like many modern AI chatbots, Vedal says Neuro-sama was made using a large language model, or LLM, a type of AI model trained from massive amounts of text taken from the open internet. As Motherboard has previously reported, many open-source AI models have a high propensity for human bias, and often mimic racist and sexist stereotypes. So while Neuro-sama's streams are 100 percent automated, Vedal has a team that monitors and moderates her and the chat.
Stupis as expected (Score:2)
I took a quick look, and Neuro-Sama is a not very good chatbot. Not really newsworthy. I was bored or I would not even have checked it out.
Re: Stupis as expected (Score:4, Funny)
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Oh No (Score:2)
What could POSSIBLY GO WRONG with this?
We are talking about Twitch now, right?
Well, some followers have really low standards (Score:2)
No surprise. Have you looked at what crap is on TV (when TV what still a thing)?
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No surprise. Have you looked at what crap is on TV (when TV what still a thing)?
It surely is a shitshow there on Television. Although it must take a low threshold of entertainment for the Neuro-sama crap.
I thought I'd have to mention that Youtube isn't itself a shitshow, just as an aside, and thought I'd share.
There is a lot of quality content on Youtube to take up the slack of the BS on "regular TV" Something like Fall of civilizations: https://www.youtube.com/@Fallo... [youtube.com]
Dr Grande mental health vids: https://www.youtube.com/@DrGra... [youtube.com] This guy is pretty cool, with a really dry sens
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There is a lot of quality content on Youtube to take up the slack of the BS on "regular TV"
But you have to find it first. 90% of YouTube content is still crap, just like most TV. The advantage of YouTube is that you can find the 10% eventually and stick to those channels.
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Yep, matches my experience. There are very few people on YouTube that I will watch. Occasionally I just look at what YouTube recommends and I almost never find anything I like. Sturgeon's Law applies nicely to YouTube, it is just far easier to select what you want to actually see. The other use I have for youtube is occasionally looking something up, like how to open a specific device (plastic cases often break if you do not do it right) or how to use a specific tool. It is great for that.
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There is a lot of quality content on Youtube to take up the slack of the BS on "regular TV"
But you have to find it first. 90% of YouTube content is still crap, just like most TV. The advantage of YouTube is that you can find the 10% eventually and stick to those channels.
You are being pretty generous to regular TV. Even if 10 percent of Non-crap videos is the real truth, that's still a lot of videos.
It's fun and games now (Score:2)
But very soon, replace the anime character with a realistic and very convincing CGI generated 'person', and "Twitch" with "Zoom", and game talk with conversations that will determine your physical livelihood and possibly your physical freedom.
Getting scared yet? Because this is where we are heading,
why? (Score:1)
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I am content with making the character say some nicely crafted dirty phrases and engage in interactive and naughty toilet humor.
We have gone from typing "U R P P" into the 1970s era Speak and Spell to this. The potential for this new tech is amazing,