Ubisoft, the developers behind many beloved and wildly successful game franchises such as Far Cry, Division and Assassin’s Creed, is the first major video game development company to announce that they’ve incorporated an Ai tool to help write dialogue for a few of their upcoming titles.
The Ai tool, known as Ghostwriter, was developed in-house to help scriptwriters in the future by generating the first draft of the phrases and sounds made by NPCs within the game worlds.
Ghostwriter was developed with the help of scriptwriters to create more realistic and dynamic-sounding NPC chatter by generating multiple variants of dialogue, thus allowing the screenwriters to spend less time on idle and repetitive tasks and more time for core dialogue.
Ubisoft also revealed a trailer to not only introduce Ghostwriter to the world but also to explain in more depth how it works:
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