What Beats Rock

About

What Beats Rock is an LLM-based game that expands the notion of a game of Rock Paper Scissors. An AI tool gauges whether a player's response "beats" another's and whether someone else has thought of a similar answer before. For example, the LLM may decide that "A Really Big Sponge" does not beat "The Ocean," while "Cancel Culture" does beat "O.J. Simpson."

Origin

On July 8th, 2024, X^[1] / Twitter user @dragon_khoi made a post announcing WhatBeatsRock.com,^[2] including three examples of matchups and their results in the tweet. The announcement post gathered over 100 likes in a week (seen below).

Spread

Prior to the official announcement, the subreddit /r/whatbeatsrock^[5] was created on July 4th, 2024. As of July 16th, 2024, the subreddit had accumulated just 24 members.

A July 11th, post on NeoGaf^[3] showed user Dacvak describing it as "The Scribblenauts of Rock Paper Scissors" (seen below).

A July 14th, 2024, post by X^[4] user @gothgirl_prelaw showed "Cancel Culture" beating "O.J. Simpson." The post gathered over 6,000 likes in two days (seen below).

Various Examples

Search Interest

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