Chants of Sennaar: How AI Can Fracture A Society

The language game has some choice things to say about language models

Alex Mell-Taylor
Fanfare
Published in
5 min readApr 30, 2024

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The 2023 game Chants of Sennaar is, first and foremost, about language. You play an unnamed traveler moving up a Tower of Babel-esque structure. Each level is host to a different society with a different language, and it's on you as an outsider to decipher the many…

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