AI-Generated Minecraft

About

AI-Generated Minecraft refers to a product launched by Etched in partnership with DecartAI in late October 2024. Introduced as Oasis, the first playable AI-generated game, the product shows a crude control panel and a screen displaying a game almost identical to Minecraft. Many internet users played Oasis in the days following its release, calling it "dementia Minecraft" and posting videos of the various ways in which the game glitches. The product garnered criticism, with some people mocking the company for claiming to have invented an AI-generated game by simply copying an existing one.

Origin

On October 31st, the Twitter / X account @DecartAI posted a video showing a controller and screen displaying gameplay nearly identical to the multiplayer sandbox game Minecraft.. The video gathered over 4,000 likes and 2,000 quote tweets in a day.^[1]

Introducing Oasis: the first playable AI-generated game.We partnered with @DecartAI to build a real-time, interactive world model that runs >10x faster on Sohu. We're open-sourcing the model architecture, weights, and research.Here's how it works (and a demo you can play!): pic.twitter.com/X39vkx3WID

— Etched (@Etched) October 31, 2024

The thread delved into the game's mechanisms and included a link where people can play the game themselves.^[2]

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On November 1st, 2024, Twitter^[6] user @GeorgeCrudo posted a review of Oasis, writing, "wow I swear I've seen a game just like this before. it's almost like millions of hours of footage of the best selling game of all time is required to train an AI to produce a worse version of it." and gathering over 98,000 likes in a day.

the best part about this one is we don't have to speculate – you can see what a disaster "all pixels will be generated" is actually likewalk into a corner – your environment is totally differentitem / inventory screens? literally unusable because "no code backing this thing" pic.twitter.com/m53r8mBrUO

— George Crudo (@GeorgeCrudo) November 1, 2024

Soon after, X^[7] user @wiiudisks then quoted the video writing, "this is like Minecraft but with dementia," and gathering over 4,000 likes in a day.

Also on November 1st, X^[3] user @wiintahX quoted the aforementioned post with a video of them playing the game, writing, "people aren't joking when they call this dementia minecraft lmao." The video shows the player trying to build a fence, only to look back and see the game hallucinate an entire structure. The post gathered over 13,000 likes in a day.

people arent joking when they call this dementia minecraft lmao https://t.co/VYbHwHgTaa pic.twitter.com/jPkk7L0YZn

— wiintah on 𝕏 (@wiintahX) November 2, 2024

On November 1st, 2024, YouTuber and commentator Mutahar of SomeOrdinaryGamers posted a YouTube^[4] video playing the game, gathering over 400,000 views in two days.

The theme of the game hallucinating and being unable to follow a cause-and-effect narrative continued to show in the gameplay and reviews people posted. On November 1st, X^[5] user @voooooogel posted a video of them playing the game, writing, "if you don't like where you are just look up in the sky to teleport," and gathering over 8,000 likes in a day.

if you don't like where you are just look up in the sky to teleport https://t.co/U9vQ4LVWFM pic.twitter.com/Q2pDd3tPII

— thebes (@voooooogel) November 1, 2024

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