What if you could patrol the streets of Los Santos in Grand Theft Auto 5 and freely speak to the inhabitants? And what if they could actually talk back to you with authentic-feeling custom dialogue?
That’s the aim of Sentient Streets, a new story-based GTA 5 mod by veteran mod creator Bloc, available now on NexusMods.
In it, players take on the role of a rookie cop investigating a conspiracy in Los Santos concerning the rise of AI. Back in real life, meanwhile, it’s AI that powers the mod’s conversations with NPCs throughout the world.
“I always had the idea of creating a virtual world like GTA, but a version where you can also interact and talk with NPCs like real people,” Bloc told Eurogamer. He’s previously worked on mods for Bannerlord and Skyrim that utilised AI-powered Large Language Models (LLMs), before seeing complaints about the technology’s future.