Using AI to write D&D content and the Doom of Creativity

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[@irvin_moe]

Tools are just tools. A hammer on his own can't freaking build a house. On this AI case it might, but imagine what kind of job you gonna get? A souless job, with no grace. Tools are just tools, their ment to be used in a correct way, that's pretty much it. Great video! I'll love your content 👌

[@grumpygrognard7292]

It is a concerning trend, especially for those who create content and material the "old-fashioned" way.

[@bridgeburner6859]

I agree with your sentiments. I write comic books and AI is a bit of an insult to the work a creative team puts into a product like that. I have no issues with generated art for a DnD game - I did this for a group of arcane assassins in one of my games. Working artists time is valuable and it's not really worth it for them or me to commission a piece just to use as an example of what something looks like. And you really can identify AI art and writing easily. I know people who struggle with writing and use it for organizing ideas or for boring copy text for mundane purposes, and that strikes me as a useful tool. That said, I am a writer and screw chat bots replacing real storytelling. The human element is the key factor in connecting to other humans.

[@rkannen]

I honestly hate both ai art and writing. I want see feel the human touch, feel something that came from someone's heart no matter how weird it is. I'd rather have clunky but heartfelt stuff instead of perfect but boring stuff. Even if the product is identical, knowing it didn't come from a real person completely ruins it for me.

[@Labroidas]

I think AI can definitly be used to generate ideas, as you mentioned, in my opinion kind of in the same way that random tables do. But i'd definitly be careful about letting it do too much of the actual "creative writing" work, as one can be easily tempted to do, because it becomes an endless amount of soulless garbage, quicker than somebody might expect. It's also great if you WANT things to be stereotypical, to get players into a certain mood. For example you could have it generate typical tavern banter between patrons, create emergency generic NPCs on the fly (when players are weirdly curious about one specific town guard again), short descriptions of generic places your players unexpectedly visit, etc. The neural networks are not creative. They basically give you the average of every creative work that already exists, because that's the stuff they were trained with. So spewing out generic crap is their strength, and we can use that! If used skillfully I believe that it can definitly make improvising at the table easier.

[@underfire987]

Idk what I've seen in the art field, AI art yes is made but is viewed as worthless, no one can sell it and it tends to be just used as a way to generate ideas from artists. I think like mass production vs handmade products but by a thousand fold difference. Those who go the way of AI are going to see the market judge no value to their products.

[@jameskerr3258]

It is inevitable. That said, I agree that the best possible use of AI is as a tool to throw out foundational concepts that are then refined by an actual organic brain. However, in a few years that might not be necessary. Or at least not necessary for average content. The market will adapt, and consumers will learn to discern what's crap and what's not. Pretty much the same as it was back in the late 70's and early 80's...when we got a similar mix of awesome and suck.

[@SneakyNinjaDog]

I fear that with ai artwork and writing we are pushing the already hard to survive fields into "impossible to survive by". In the future we may be able to emulate art by Andy Warhol but we might be cheated out of the new artists as they will have to find something else to do. We will become like the adeptus mechanicus in the 40K universe, unable to fully understand the tech we use and merely poking and prodding to make it do ... something. Many say ai is just another tool. And I agree. But it should remain a tool, not become "the creator". It is fine to render a pic of a mage for your own campaign. But if you are publishing a product, please hire a real artist! Same goes for the writing.

[@coldwarrior78]

In over 40 years of D&D, I've never used computer generated anything. They lack focus and continuity. Totally random crap makes no sense. Would not inflict it on my players.