Gamorrean Toilets

I installed Gemma4 locally for experimentation – for now it will be a local roleplaying game assistant and oracle++, later I’ll make SillyTavern plugins for handling actual RPG game rules.

The idea of giving the agent the ability to websearch for lore and ideas is a tempting one but I immediately hit a paranoid concern – what if I am running a RPG session where the players are tackling a terrorist threat, and the agent decides to search for ‘bomb making’, just for verisimilitude, and I end up in jail!

(It’s a serious concern, in the UK the Terrorism Act 2000 / 2006 covers collecting information useful to terrorism, not just intent to use it.)

Or even worse, the agent decides to search “elf mating rituals” or “gamorrean toilets” because it thinks they would add something to the current game. There’s some things I do not want on my permanent record.

I can’t very well rely on the Hull Defence when I have specifically blogged against it.

The conclusion must be, that for any agentic search, limit it to known useful resources. In the case of my RPG tasks, limit to relevant fandom sites and official lore sources. For broader tasks? I think I will not allow it to search at all, but instead create a plugin which allows it to tell me what search it would have liked to make, to aid its task. Then I can decide whether to allow it.

I don’t want someone gaining access to my search history an rubbing ‘Gamorrean toilets’ in my face.