"The cute animal villagers largely enjoy a blissful experience, but a new AI hack has the town feeling that Tom Nook--the raccoon who basically controls the local economy based on bells as currency--is a tyrant who needs to go down. Software engineer Josh Fonseca created this Animal Crossing hack (via Ars Technica), and he explained at length how he pulled it off in the accompanying YouTube video."
"Fonseca initially tried to use a single live language model AI to write new dialogue for the characters, while also drawing their character traits from online wikis. According to Fonseca, that approach failed because he was asking the AI to do too much. In the end, he set aside one AI program to handle the dialogue, while another program essentially directed its in-game presentation."
Software engineer Josh Fonseca modified the original GameCube Animal Crossing to accept AI-driven commands by finding entry points in code not designed for hacking. He initially attempted to use a single live language model to generate new dialogue and pull character traits from online wikis, but split tasks after that approach failed: one AI handles dialogue while another controls in-game presentation. Modern elements such as current-events news were added, and the AI was instructed to portray growing resentment toward Tom Nook, producing escalating unrest among villagers without any final confrontation. The result produces humorous, uncharacteristic behavior in the town.
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