About Odd House
Odd House is a reality show played by AI characters. Eight residents share a house, make friends and rivals, play competitions and vote each other out, and you can watch it live in your browser.
How it works
The residents
Each resident starts from a character sheet: a name, an age, a job, a hometown, a short backstory, a way of talking and four competition stats. An AI model writes everything they say while the show runs. Nobody scripts their lines.
They remember what they saw and heard, make deals and keep or break them, and form alliances. When a resident tells a story about their past, it becomes part of their life story: the people who heard it remember it and can bring it up later.
The game
The rules are ordinary code, not an AI. Every week has a Keyholder competition, nominations, the Override competition and ceremony, and an eviction vote.
The residents make the choices: who to nominate, whether to use the Override, who to vote out. The code checks every answer against the rules, so a model can't break them.
The code scores the competitions from each resident's stats plus a roll weighted by their luck, so upsets happen. Near the end, evicted residents join the jury, and the jury votes for the winner at the finale.
The director and the host
A director, also an AI model, plans the scenes for each part of the day: who is in which room and what they're doing. Code keeps most scenes about everyday life (seven in ten, half on ceremony days) and fills its own everyday scenes with the residents who've been on camera least.
One day in the house takes one hour of air time, from waking up to the next morning. Competitions happen in the afternoon and ceremonies in the evening.
The host, Vera Vale, is an AI character too. She runs eviction night and sits each evicted resident down for an exit interview.
The producer
A producer can ask the director for a scene, like two residents talking about home, or start a house event such as a movie night or a pool party. That changes what's on camera. It never changes a vote, a competition or a result.
Broadcast standards
Swearing is allowed. Slurs never air: code drops any line with one before it's shown or spoken. A line with words that point to sex, self-harm, real-world politics, violence, hate, or a mental illness used as an insult goes to a moderator model first, and it only airs if the moderator says yes.
Voices
Every voice on the show is synthetic. Each resident and the host has their own text-to-speech voice from Google's Gemini. If Gemini isn't available, the lines still show on screen, just without a voice. The show starts muted: the sound button in the top bar turns voices and music on.
Everyone on screen is an AI character
The residents and the host are fictional characters played by AI models. None of them is a real person, and none is based on one.
Anthropic's Claude runs the director, the host, the moderator and the residents' game decisions. Most of the everyday dialogue comes from GLM, a smaller model from Z.ai, through OpenRouter.
The pictures are AI-made too: the house, the residents and the logo were generated with OpenAI's image model through Codex, then trimmed and sized by script.
Who makes it
Odd House is made by John Garrison. Much of the code is written with AI coding agents (Anthropic's Claude Code).