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I am at a loss for words:

If you've ever wanted AI-generated Kratos to advertise games to you (for some reason), I've got great news about Sony's latest baffling patent: 'LLM-based generative podcasts for gamers'
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Sony's on it again with another bizarre AI patent I'm not sure anybody rightly wants. Back in January, the company put forward a patent for a "ghost", which could play videogames for you if you were getting stuck.

This idea sucks, don't get me wrong—but it at least makes a certain kind of sense. If you're an executive that's never played a videogame before, you might think that the largest obstacle between your consumer and a bigger library is difficulty. The reality is that when I get a game I usually want to play it, but whatever. It's not like I've never used a guide from one of our hardworking guides writers. I can see the vision.

What I cannot fathom is why anybody would even think to want this latest patent, (spotted by VGC) beyond a brief bout of novelty. Sony's proposed AI-generated future involves "LLM-based generative podcasts for gamers". Oh boy.

The pitch is this: You boot up your console, which has "a large language model (LLM) to identify data associated with a video game player's profile" baked into it. You get a prompt to "generate a podcast of news related to the data, with the podcast presenting the news in a voice of a video game character of a video game played by the video game player."

You should check the two diagrams from the patent application...

So, I ask you, am I, and the author of the article, out of touch, or is Sony living in another reality?