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Podcast #280: AI Art Controversy in RPGs...Again
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<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 9227908" data-attributes="member: 6669048"><p>It's the nature of YouTube's algorithm. Basically, it's the visual equivalent of clickbait. If you have a story with any nuance to it at all, tak the most extreme reading possible, throw it in the thumbnail with the host looking shocked pointing at a picture with something random circled in red. </p><p></p><p>Two recent examples: </p><p></p><p>Hasbro lays off 1100 employees, some of whom work on D&D. Big enough story on its own, wouldn't you say? Nope, got to make the title "D&D Owner Lays Off 1100 Employees!!" with the Wizards of the Coast logo in the thumbnail and text saying "Going Bankrupt??" Which is only true in the most rules lawyer "Well technically" way possible because it was Hasbro doing the layoffs not Wizards of the Coast, and they're very obviously not going bankrupt Hasbro's just not as profitable as they wanted to be so laid off people to goose end-of-year numbers and pay out bigger dividends. Like every other company in America does when their profit margins didn't grow enough.</p><p></p><p>And then there was the announcement from WotC about the artwork where they used the phrase "final D&D products" to mean the final product - as in the completed product with all the game design and writing and editing and artwork and layout done that's ready to sell as a PDF or send off to be printed. But several people intentionally misinterpreted this as no more products for D&D will be made after this which...why would anyone think that? They just announced an entire line-up for 2024, there's no way they're not going to keep printing new books especially when they're about to do a soft relaunch of the core rulebooks. The only possible way you could think that is if you were wanting to post a video thumbnail that says "The End of Dungeons & Dragons Confirmed??" (again with the question marks because they're not SAYING anything (Because that would be actionable in court), they're just asking questions).</p><p></p><p>It's incredibly frustrating as a journalist because "Rumors travel halfway around the world before the truth has got its boots on" combined with people judging me and MY credibility based off debunking the rumors and intentional misinterpretation and misframing of the fact because the clickbait is confirming their bias against WotC (or Paizo or whatever company they're angry at, but usually one of those two) and I'm saying "If you want to hate this company there are plenty of legitimate reasons, you don't need to go making up fake ones."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 9227908, member: 6669048"] It's the nature of YouTube's algorithm. Basically, it's the visual equivalent of clickbait. If you have a story with any nuance to it at all, tak the most extreme reading possible, throw it in the thumbnail with the host looking shocked pointing at a picture with something random circled in red. Two recent examples: Hasbro lays off 1100 employees, some of whom work on D&D. Big enough story on its own, wouldn't you say? Nope, got to make the title "D&D Owner Lays Off 1100 Employees!!" with the Wizards of the Coast logo in the thumbnail and text saying "Going Bankrupt??" Which is only true in the most rules lawyer "Well technically" way possible because it was Hasbro doing the layoffs not Wizards of the Coast, and they're very obviously not going bankrupt Hasbro's just not as profitable as they wanted to be so laid off people to goose end-of-year numbers and pay out bigger dividends. Like every other company in America does when their profit margins didn't grow enough. And then there was the announcement from WotC about the artwork where they used the phrase "final D&D products" to mean the final product - as in the completed product with all the game design and writing and editing and artwork and layout done that's ready to sell as a PDF or send off to be printed. But several people intentionally misinterpreted this as no more products for D&D will be made after this which...why would anyone think that? They just announced an entire line-up for 2024, there's no way they're not going to keep printing new books especially when they're about to do a soft relaunch of the core rulebooks. The only possible way you could think that is if you were wanting to post a video thumbnail that says "The End of Dungeons & Dragons Confirmed??" (again with the question marks because they're not SAYING anything (Because that would be actionable in court), they're just asking questions). It's incredibly frustrating as a journalist because "Rumors travel halfway around the world before the truth has got its boots on" combined with people judging me and MY credibility based off debunking the rumors and intentional misinterpretation and misframing of the fact because the clickbait is confirming their bias against WotC (or Paizo or whatever company they're angry at, but usually one of those two) and I'm saying "If you want to hate this company there are plenty of legitimate reasons, you don't need to go making up fake ones." [/QUOTE]
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