[allencheng]

I agree, AI Dungeon is a fantastic idea and right now has first mover advantage. Once it's clear it's a viable business, AI Dungeon will spawn a lot of competitors. Outside of GPT-3, their proprietary tech doesn't seem like anything fancy. From here, there are a few main outcomes:

-AI Dungeon has first mover advantage in branding and reputation, and new customers stay loyal to it. Its competitors end up seizing just a small % of market share in the niche automated AI text game market.

-five viable competitors to AI Dungeon pop up. They all compete with each other with very similar products, and it becomes a pricing war, sapping earnings from everyone.

-API pricing will kill the economics of AI Dungeon and similar projects. This is what happened to Geoguessr and related games, which relied on Google Maps API for years until the pricing became prohibitive.

[petters]

Completely agree. But the creator of AI dungeon has gotten 10k Twitter followers and will likely get a good job/career out of it, if nothing else.