Any chance you can share your copy with us? That way, as you said, if Google decides to take it down, and the BYU people are too scared to put it up, we all have access. My PMs are open.
Sorry, but it's attached to my Google Drive and ideally I only want shadowy megacorporations to know anything about me. However I can tell you what you need to do to throw it on there yourself. Original credit to some anon on 4chan but I'm going to type out my own goddamn play by play tutorial because holy shit it was a mess there.
First step, make sure you have 7+ gigs free on your Google Drive. AI Dungeon takes up about 6 gigs so some wiggle room is a good idea.
Next, click the play button (Upper lefthand corner of the !git clone cell, appears when you mouse over it) to download/torrent AI Dungeon in the Colab notebook and wait for it to finish.
Next, create a new cell in the notebook (Mouse over the center of the notebook, let's say above the cell you used to download it into the notebook) and enter the following:
Code:
from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/gdrive', force_remount=True)
root_dir = "/content/gdrive/My Drive/"
and run that cell. It'll ask you to click a link, click the link, copy the code Google Drive gives you, and paste that into the text prompt and hit enter. That mounts your Google Drive in the notebook.
Next, make another new cell (I'd suggest somewhere you don't care about. You WILL use the mounting cell again, this one you won't) and enter the following:
Code:
%cd /content/gdrive/My\ Drive/
!mkdir AIDungeon
!mv /content/AIDungeon/{,.[^.]}* /content/gdrive/My\ Drive/AIDungeon/
and run that. This will shove the AI Dungeon files that your Colab notebook downloaded into your Google Drive.
Next, go to the play cell (The one that starts with "from IPython.display import") and put your text cursor to the left of the "from" and hit enter, then up on your keyboard and paste the following in as a line ABOVE where the "from" starts:
Code:
%cd /content/gdrive/My\ Drive/AIDungeon
and now the play cell should be loading the AI Dungeon files from your Google Drive.
Finally, go to the upper left of the Colab interface and click "Import to my drive" to import this edited notebook to your Google Drive. In the future when you want to play this copy, browse to your Google Drive, go to the "Colab Notebooks" folder, and run the copied file there since that will have these modifications made to it.
Note for playing it off of your Google Drive once you've done everything previously: You won't need to run the cell to download the game again (Obviously) but you do need to run the cell to mount your Google Drive again before loading the game itself up basically every time you start up the notebook. Sometimes it needs you to verify it with a code again, sometimes not, but you do need to make sure it's mounted.
Also I tried out the original version just now and it looks like it has a censorship toggle built into it now, so you don't need a shady uncensored version to go a-rapin'. Didn't double check all this shit works with the new official version but it looks like it should all be fine, then you can have a copy squirreled away on your Google Drive in case of emergency.