Lucian's IFComp 2025 reviews (latest: whoami)

One Step Ahead
ZUO LIFAN

This game takes very real and reasonable concerns about over-reliance on AI, extrapolates them a bit to illustrate the dangers slightly more, and then for some reason resorts to a ‘BUT WHAT IF AI GAINS SENTIENCE’ trope. Like… why? AI gaining sentience is not an actual problem, while over-reliance on LLMs is. I had hoped for some small insight into the issue, but no, it’s just a ‘hey, AIs are bad, amirght?’ Sure, probably, but I was hoping for something more.

Did the author have anything to say? AIS ARE BAD
Did I have anything to do? Sigh as the story fell apart.

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