The ideal of AI gaming with "friends" will be less like twitch and more like Joi in 2049, but instead of a holographic waifu it's your fat neckbeard friend who is scarily good at roleplaying murderhobos. You don't even need to buy him real pizza.

The AI could make an even better recreation of that scenario. What you get now with real streamers (not including parasocial-exploiter thots) is weirdos throwing money at boogie2988 or hasanpiker so they will tell you how much of a piece of shit you are.

In fact the ideal of AI gaming will be less like twitch and more like Joi in 2049, but instead of a holographic waifu it's your fat neckbeard friend who is scarily good at roleplaying murderhobos. You don't even need to buy him real pizza.