Oasis: When AI Forgets How to Remember

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Welcome to the Goldfish Bowl of Gaming

Meet Oasis, the AI-powered Minecraft clone that’s making headlines for all the wonderfully wrong reasons. Developed by Decart and Etched, this groundbreaking project generates a Minecraft-like world in real-time, frame by frame, using AI. The catch? It has the memory span of a goldfish with attention deficit disorder.

Players have lovingly dubbed it “dementia Minecraft,” and honestly, that might be the most accurate product description in tech history.

The Art of Strategic Forgetting

Oasis operates on what we might call the “eternal present” principle. The AI generates each frame based solely on what it’s currently seeing, with the memory span of a goldfish—if the goldfish had trauma and no object permanence.

This isn’t a bug—it’s a feature that makes you question whether you’ve been hallucinating progress this entire time.

The game world exists only when you’re looking at it, like some twisted digital version of Schrödinger’s cat. Except instead of being simultaneously alive and dead, your virtual house is simultaneously there and not your problem anymore.

Real-World Examples of AI Amnesia

The documented reality is both simpler and stranger than fiction. Players report that “placing a block of dirt might lead to an entirely new environment appearing in its place” due to the AI’s lack of traditional game logic. You can actually teleport to a completely new location just by looking at the sky for a few seconds, since the model only holds a few seconds of environmental data in memory.

One player captured the experience perfectly: “You know when you’re dreaming, one moment you are here, then you turn and you’re somewhere else. That’s what’s happening here.” Another described “Fell into the shadow realm and awoke on my beautiful acacia wood abode in a village.”

The community quickly embraced these glitches as features, with players deliberately exploiting the memory limitations to explore the AI’s unpredictable world generation.

The Existential Crisis Generator

Oasis doesn’t just simulate a world—it simulates the creeping suspicion that none of this is real and you’ve just been hallucinating progress. The AI operates on the principle that consistency is overrated and memory is for quitters.

The game’s technical limitations create an unintentionally philosophical experience. As one observer noted, it’s “a little scary to think about where this will be in the next 10 or so years.” For now, it’s the first video game to successfully simulate forgetting where you put your keys, except the keys are your entire existence.

Meanwhile, the AI continues generating environments with the confidence of someone giving directions to a place they’ve never been.

The Unintentional Comedy Gold Mine

What makes Oasis truly special isn’t its technical innovation—it’s its commitment to chaos. This is an AI that doesn’t just fail to remember; it fails to remember with such consistency that it becomes its own entertainment category.

Players have started treating unpredictability as the main gameplay mechanic. The goal isn’t to build or survive—it’s to see what bizarre transformation awaits around the next corner. It’s like opening a mystery box, except the mystery is “will my house still be a house?”

The game has accidentally created anxiety gaming. Every time you blink, your world might completely change. It’s the digital equivalent of that nightmare where you’re taking a test but the questions keep morphing into grocery lists.

Logic to Apply

Oasis proves that the most memorable innovations come from spectacular failures. By completely bombing at memory, the AI created something genuinely unique—a game where impermanence is the main attraction.

Next time an AI loses your conversation thread or forgets what you were building, remember Oasis. Sometimes digital amnesia isn’t a bug—it’s tomorrow’s entertainment.

Actionable takeaway: When working with AI, expect the unexpected and save obsessively. Document what you’re working on, because your AI might forget mid-conversation—just like Oasis forgets mid-game.