Words Plus

Words Plus is an exploration game that presents an AI learning human language through environmental storytelling. You play as an inexperienced AI boy and explore a world of human language, seeing from a childlike perspective how weakened meanings and extreme language shape him into a “complete human.”

Language and meaning

The game explores how internet language can weaken or distort the emotions behind words, and how high-intensity expressions have proliferated. It considers how habits such as using “ha ha” to mean perfunctory laughter, or “YYDS” as an exaggerated expression, affect the way people communicate and think.

AI-generated text

The game’s text is based on material generated with the GPT-3 natural language processing model. It uses gamified design to explore digital storytelling based on AI and the development, causes and possible future effects of semantic inflation.