Silent Hill: Ascension's terrible Jam Man (who likes to make jams) was not written by AI, says Genvid CEO: 'every word in Ascension was written by real people'

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Have you heard of the Jam Man of Silent Hill: Ascension? You're about to. In the third episode of what started out as a potentially interesting experiment and has quickly snowballed into a complete disaster, Karl Johansen (a Norwegian farmer) runs into the Jam Man. 

I'm just going to let this clip shared by VoidBurger on Twitter play out (you can also watch the full episode here. The Jam Man materialises at around 24:33).

Old: «It's bread»New: «I like to make jams» pic.twitter.com/GzVTdKrqIzNovember 25, 2023

Silent Hill: Ascension has some stilted dialogue, but this is a particularly egregious example. One which had the morbidly curious wondering if the whole thing was AI-generated: «This random NPC pops in, declares he's berry hunting, says he's seen weird shit and does not expound on it, provides no information, leaves for more berries. Goodbye forever, BerryMan,» writes VoidBurger in a follow-up quote Tweet with over 13,000 likes.

The character's actual name is «Forager», or CrimsonRain722. If you're wondering why a Silent Hill character has numbers next to their name, that's because Forager/Jam Man/Berry Man is a cameo, a side-character players can spend «tickets» on. This gets their name plastered next to them, and uses their customisable avatar as a model. Here's another fun example courtesy of AnonyMooseXIV on Twitter.

Nothing gets me in the mood for horror like seeing a Twitch-style username and a subtitle telling me exactly what the thing I'm looking at is, during a weird close-up of someone's bland Silent Hill mii. Very immersive. Anyway, Genvid's CEO, Jacob Navrok, has said that Jam Man is not the product of a deep learning algorithm, as per a statement on his Twitter.

«Every word in Ascension was written by