GTA 5 AI mod lets you use voice chat to converse, arrest, and extort the NPCs of Los Santos

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Grand Theft Auto 5's world is expansive, detailed, and filled with chatty NPCs. But frankly, they aren't chatty enough. It's simply not sufficient for the denizens of Los Santos to loose trite one-liners at me as I dash past or careen into them in a 4x4, I want to have a conversation with them. I want to know what makes them tick. I want to get hands-on with their soul.

Anyway, there's a new mod called Sentient Streets (via VGC) that doesn't really do any of that, but it will let you conduct rambling conversations with cops, cultists, and criminals with the assistance of «30+ AI models». It uses the Inworld AI Character Engine—the same tech that powers that not terribly fitting Stardew Valley AI mod we covered last month—and voices from ElevenLabs to build a mod that attempts an Evel Knievel-style motocross jump across the uncanny valley.

With the mod installed, users are able to walk up to the mod's characters and engage them in polite discourse using their actual, human voices, allowing for «open-ended» and «voice-to-voice conversations with the residents of Los Santos». It's actually a narrative mod: Loading it drops you into the shoes of a cop as he uses «persuasive tactics to defuse tense situations, and [employs] innovative strategies to extract critical information from criminals». Chatting with them, in other words.

You can see how that works in the video above. Marvel as the protagonist's prospective partners regale him with the tales behind their slightly disconcerting nicknames. Recoil as he persuades a ditzy rich kid to pay him off with a thousand bucks. Be astounded as an unkempt man goes off on a lengthy rant about the perfidious «NihilAIsts» and their plot to do something vague and untoward.

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