Streamer lets viewers add custom voice lines to Skyrim NPCs, immediately realises their mistake: 'I formally apologise and regret my life choices'

AI has had a pretty controversial role across the gaming industry as of the past couple of years including—but certainly not limited to—designing NPCs. Recently, Ubisoft debuted uncanny AI-powered «neo NPCs», and to say I'm sceptical of the tech's actual uses is an understatement. Streamer Blurbs, however, has finally gotten me on board with at least one: letting his chat inject the most cursed custom voice lines into the denizens of Skyrim like a bunch of smutty skinwalkers. 

«In around three hours from this post I will be debuting what is, without a doubt, the best thing I've ever concocted,» Blurbs writes on Twitter, like Daedelus showing a pair of wax wings to his son. 

«So—here's what we've done,» Blurbs proceeds to state on the mod's inaugural stream. «I have never made a game mod before. I've ventured into the modding universe [where] chat can live-voice NPCs. It's gonna go horribly.» Strolling into Riverwood, here's the first five custom lines he encounters:

So, pretty great right out the gate.

The mod works as follows: Any subscriber or VIP to his Twitch channel can create a 300-character message, then give said message a gender and a tone of voice before pressing enter. If the NPC's parent is also active in the chat, they can send further messages into the vessel of their choosing by nattering as normal. As things progressed, things grew rapidly more… upsetting, as a couple of clips shared by Blurbs on Twitter show:

I created a Skyrim mod that allows my Twitch chat to voice in-game characters (with mouth movements/subtitles/etc) live in real-time. It went as horribly as you'd expect.Also, if you die in the game: YOU DIE IN REAL LIFE pic.twitter.com/yTKUVnuMd8April 29, 2024

The post-viral Skyrim Twitch TTS mod has officially reached max levels of degeneracy thanks to the Internet. I formally apologize and regret my life choices. pic.twitter.com/FX9EKyShlwApril 29, 2024

«I formally apologise and regret my life choices,» Blurbs says, like Prometheus probably