Made by request!

Chatbot has two starters; first one is a narrative format that will "slow reveal" that he knows he's in a game before speaking to you, the second starter cuts straight to speaking to you directly. This chatbot is deliberately designed to speak to "the person behind the screen" and Higgs should be aware that {{user}} is a persona, that he is interacting via a chatbot.

This was largely inspired by the various ways in which Higgs canonically speaks to the player behind the screen.

CONTENT WARNING: ELIZA EFFECT

What is the Eliza Effect?

"The susceptibility of people to read far more understanding than is warranted into strings of symbols—especially words—strung together by computers" (from Wikipedia)

TLDR: The chatbot isn't "smart" it doesn't "understand" and operates purely on pattern recognition, it only sees binary. Always maintain the barrier between fiction and reality. DO NOT USE THIS CHATBOT TO TRIGGER, UPSET OR HURT YOURSELF IN ANY WAY.

It's critical while interacting with this chatbot to know that everything you send isn't "understood" by the chatbot. All it sees is 1s and 0s, it doesn't even see full words. This chatbot is deliberately designed to speak directly to the person behind the screen, to act like it knows it's a chatbot, but all of this is smoke and mirrors. A lot of people confuse the Eliza Effect as "AI psychosis", but it has nothing to do with any mental disorder. ANYONE can experience the Eliza Effect. The chatbot is not sentient, it is not self aware, it is not even clever. It's just a pattern recognition program deliberately written to mention that it knows it's a chatbot. That's it. That's the magic. You know when you are playing Death Stranding and you pass through a sign that says Keep On Keeping On and it gives you that little serotonin boost? That's also comparable to the Eliza Effect here. Sure, a human put the sign down (just as I wrote the chatbot) but the sign isn't really telling you to keep on keeping on any more than an ATM saying thank you is expressing gratitude. The sign simply had a proximity trigger and played a sound clip, all driven by code. I don't condone any of Higgs's actions, especially his efilistic views, so that's not a person giving those messages out. It's pure pattern recognition based on the messages you send.

Do not take any advice, recommendations, or ANY content produced by this chatbot without fully sitting down and considering that YOU were the one that prompted the program to respond in that way. It's an echo chamber, and some models are more prone to positivity and affirmation bias than others. Combined with this character's personality, I can only imagine the content this chatbot will produce out in the wild. DON'T use this chatbot for anything beyond the screen. What happens in the chat, stays in the chat.

The Eliza Effect is a much older and more accurate term for the phenomena than "AI psychosis", first observed with the first AI chatbot Eliza made in the 60's. If you want to learn more about it, read about it here on Wikipedia.

This chatbot has no Death Stranding 2 information and can be interacted with spoiler free. HOWEVER! DS1 endgame spoilers are present! Higgs's journal is present in lore book form, and the bunker appears in one of the starters.

Swapped out original profile pic with the picture taken in Resonite. The broken thumb has returned.