Developer of GTA 5 mod that lets you chat to AI NPCs says it’s been removed by Take-Two
The developer of a Grand Theft Auto V mod which gave players the ability to chat to NPCs using AI says it’s been removed by Rockstar‘s parent company Take-Two Interactive.
Sentient Streets was a new story-based download for the game created by Bloc, a veteran modder who previously released something similar for Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.
According to Bloc’s description for the mod, the NPCs in Sentient Streets “are powered by 30+ AI models that let players have open-ended conversations in real-time with eccentric cult members, cunning police officers, and unsuspecting civilians.”
The mod was accompanied by a YouTube video showing how it worked. It shows the player controlling a police officer, standing in a street with three other officers. By approaching each police officer and pressing the T key to get their attention, players can then hold the N key and speak into their microphone to ask them a question.
The officer will then use AI to interpret the question, generate an answer and reply to the player. Each officer has also been given a different personality – one is friendly, one is tough and one is flirty.
However, in a new message posted on their YouTube channel, Bloc says Take-Two has taken down the mod from the Nexus Mods website, and has also had the YouTube video removed. Bloc then chose to remove the mod from the GTA5Mods website to avoid any more issues.
“Yesterday, Take-Two Interactive hit my channel with copyright strike about my video on GTA V mod and YouTube removed the video immediately without giving any chance to explain myself,” they claim.
“The reason for this takedown shown by Take-Two Interactive to YouTube was because I used their software (GTA V) in the video. No one from Take-Two Interactive
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