{"id":297296,"date":"2025-12-03T19:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/297296\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T19:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:51:12","slug":"where-winds-meet-player-has-nsfw-chat-session-with-ai-npc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/297296\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Winds Meet Player Has NSFW Chat Session With AI NPC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether we wanted it or not, we\u2019ve stepped into a world where AI is increasingly sneaking into our games. Free-to-play multiplayer Steam hit Where Winds Meet is one of the latest examples, using an LLM-based chatbot for many of its NPCs that players can talk with. Or flirt with. Or \u201csocially\u201d engineer into completing quests without actually doing the work by talking to them like Solid Snake.<\/p>\n

Read More: Open-World RPG Where Winds Meet Has It All: Evil Geese, AI Chatbots, And A $40,000 Skin<\/a><\/p>\n

Developed by Chinese-based Everstone Studio, Where Winds Meet is a veritable Mulligan stew of countless modern gaming conventions, as well as AI NPCs that trade scripted, canned lines of dialogue for, in theory anyway, a more dynamic and unpredictable experience. Others might describe it as lifeless. I\u2019m inclined to agree, but the tech isn\u2019t without its amusing quirks and exploits. One such player seems to have proven this by flirting with the tech until it\u2026well, it did something raunchy enough for a Reddit mod to take it down<\/a> (h\/t The Gamer<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Though the screenshot taken by Reddit user Oglokes24 is now in horny jail, we can glean some context clues from the comments. The flirting seemed to involve Okglokes24 lying to an NPC to say that \u201cher husband died\u201d and, well, whatever it was, one user replied: \u201cYou should be locked up.\u201d \u201cSex minigame when?\u201d reads another comment. \u201cBan incoming,\u201d states another.<\/p>\n

Kotaku has reached out to Oglokes24 about the contents of the now-deleted screenshot.<\/p>\n

AI\u2026Chatbots? <\/p>\n

Since LLMs hit the web<\/a>, folks have been finding all sorts of ways to trick them into doing things they\u2019re not supposed to. Insert that tech into a game, and it\u2019s no surprise that people are finding ways to get it to do things it\u2019s not really supposed to. That includes some clever players realizing that if you talk to Where Winds Meet\u2019s AI chatbots as Solid Snake would, by restating various phrases back to the NPC as a question, you can bypass certain quest win conditions.<\/p>\n

In a Reddit post documenting the so-called \u201cMetal Gear method\u201d (h\/t PCGamesN<\/a>), a user was able to end a quest just by rephrasing everything the NPC said back as a question.<\/p>\n

\"A\u00a9 Screenshot: Everstone Studio \/ Hakkix <\/p>\n

Based on comments from other players, the tech behind these pseudo-sentient NPCs isn\u2019t as sophisticated as something like ChatGPT, so it\u2019s a bit easier to find ways to screw with it. While I admit the prospect of interacting with NPCs via natural language is neat, I certainly am unwilling to trade thoughtful, well-written characters for this junk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whether we wanted it or not, we\u2019ve stepped into a world where AI is increasingly sneaking into our…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55,107613],"class_list":{"0":"post-297296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom","15":"tag-where-winds-meet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}