A strange TikTok trend, where users livestream themselves acting like an “NPC”—or an automated “non-player character” with pre-written dialogue—complete with nonsensical phrases like ...

Why acting like an NPC robot is the hot new gig for TikTokers ‘People who do this are making 2 to 4k a month.’ Sayou Cooper. Updated on July 24 2023 8:51 pm CDT ...

Internet Torn Over Whether This Is a Real Woman or Robot Amid NPC Trend. Published Jul 19, 2022 at 7:41 AM EDT. ... it can be hard to tell exactly who is a human and who is a robot.

TiGames' ZooPunk is a prime example: It relies on NVIDIA ACE to generate dialog, a virtual voice and lip syncing for an NPC named Buck. But as you can see in the video above, Buck sounds like a ...

This is the NPC problem we actually face: a nonplayer Congress, driven by Republicans who serve Trump’s ambitions first. We are left relying on the courts, and that may work.