After a viral tweet accused Silent Hill: Ascension of being written by artificial intelligence, the CEO of the studio behind the interactive choose-your-own adventure series has insisted it was written by “real people.” He added that any insinuation that it wasn’t “is just a veiled insult to talented humans who have worked hard to create something they are proud of.”
Silent Hill: Ascension is an interactive television series set in Konami’s popular horror franchise. Via the web or an app, users can stream new episodes of the series live and collectively vote on choices. In a viral post on X (formerly Twitter), ex-Giant Bomb video producer Voidburger shared a video clip and lambasted a moment that recently played out as part of the show, in which the main characters stumble upon a lone man out in the woods. Some stilted dialogue ensues, in which the man comments on how he is out picking berries and “likes to make jams.” Just as soon as he appears, the berry-loving man disappears, never to be seen again.