Cards Against Machinery

What Is Cards Against Machinery?

CAM is a card-matching game similar to Apples to Apples, or Cards Against Humanity. 

However, unlike those games, which produce their cards using obsolete, unhygienic human labor, CAM's cards are produced entirely with the latest in state of the art generative neural networks*. 

The results are bizarre, surreal, and often hilarious. And, because the cards are generated by machine, the game can have a lot of them.

Specifically, CAM has more than 100,000 prompt cards, and more than 1,000,000 response cards. This largely solves the problem with physical card matching games, which is that eventually you're sick to death of most of the cards. CAM is a fresh (and very strange) experience every time you play it.

*Specifically, a version of Open-AI's GPT-2 fine-tuned on a hand-edited assortment of several thousand funny cards. You can learn more about GPT-2 here.

Is This Game Safe For Work?

Not remotely. This game is very, very offensive. Neural networks do not understand social taboos. 

Mostly the cards are gross but harmless, which is the general energy I was shooting for. However, some of the model's original training data comes from Reddit. As a result, it's occasionally mean-spirited and kinda racist, so be prepared for that.

Is This Game In Early Access?

The game may get new features and improvements, but it's in a stable, playable state. It supports 7-player, cloud-hosted online multiplayer, so you don't have to mess with your firewall or ports to play it. It should pretty much just work.

Can I Use These Cards For My Own Nefarious Purposes?

Yes you can! 

The card lists (which you can find in the "Resources" folder) are Creative-Commons licensed, and can be freely used by anyone for anything.

Go nuts.