Bro Saw Two Photos and Made Up Lore

This is a story about a game called UNSEEN, which was created to encourage people to go outside and notice real things in the world. The game's creator showed a small AI model two photos from a walk and asked it how they were connected. Surprisingly, the AI invented the answers in 6 out of 10 test pairs. The creator decided to change the rules and let the AI describe what they saw, but not decide what was true.

The game, UNSEEN, requires players to walk a set distance, put their phone away, and take a photo of something they noticed. A local open-weight vision model then describes what they saw. A separate evidence gate checks if the observation has required evidence, is eligible, and has not already been claimed. If the observation passes this gate, the player earns materials for their virtual world.

UNSEEN was built using the open-weight vision model Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct through Ollama, which runs locally on the player's device. This means that photos are not sent to a hosted AI service and each photo costs nothing. The game is open-source, allowing others to run their own experiments and build upon the concept.

The creator of UNSEEN wanted to create a game that had a real-world connection and encouraged players to explore their environment. The game's philosophy is to be grounded in reality, making the physical world the most intricate and surprising world ever made.