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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Hasbro CEO All-In on AI
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 09:36:24 +0200
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On 9/12/2024 6:12 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks is excited about using AI in D&D.
> "Inside of development, we've already been using AI" and "there's not
> a single person who doesn't use AI somehow for either campaign
> development or character development or story ideas. That's a clear
> signal that we need to be embracing it."*
> 
> But he also claims to play D&D with 30 or 40 people regularly, so I'm
> not sure how much I believe him.

Hmm... that wasn't uncommon in earlier editions, but I don't think the 
current version of DnD is very good for that.

> 
> Well, I believe him about them using AI. It's cheaper than actually
> paying people, after all, and who cares if the end result is pabulum.
> 
> I know, I know; "AI is just a tool" and "it's coming so you might as
> well accept it" and all that. But nothing I've seen about AI has
> indicated it makes games any _better_; just that it allows products to
> be released faster and more cheaply (for the developer, anyway. I
> don't really see those savings reflected in the prices I end up
> paying).

The only use case I can see for AI in TTRPG games is as a quick filler 
for stuff that doesn't matter. I was trying to give ChatGPT some 
prompts, and it did manage to get what looked like properly statted NPCs 
and monsters in a variety of game systems. But the content also was 
really, really boring and trite. So if you needed a quick description of 
some room or item you never thought you might need, then maybe it could 
be useful.

It still feels like I would be betraying the spirit of the game though.

Also note the "looked like" I used in that paragraph before: the main 
problem with AIs right now is that they confidently will state 
absolutely wrong information in what sounds like confidence. When I was 
trying out ChatGPT it basically made up information about subjects I 
really knew well, and it all sounded very convincing, because that's 
what ChatGPT does: it makes convincing text that is roughly like 
something a real person would have written. It doesn't think about 
stuff. It doesn't know how stuff works or how stuff interrelates with 
each other.

> 
> Hasbro's stance also runs counter to Wizard of the Coast's stated
> countermand, requiring third-party artist to refrain from using AI
> art. But I guess what's good for the goose isn't good for the gander.

Well, that's because Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast sometimes have this 
issue knowing what each other is doing.