D&D General DMs Guild and DriveThruRPG ban AI written works, requires labels for AI generated art

[J.Quondam]

Do you want your ability to provide for yourself and your children beholden to the whims of Government even more so than it is today?

It's not especially surprising that a government captured by companies would act like the Company Store.

 

[Scribe]

So long as the government is beholden to its people, that shouldn’t be a problem. Granted, that’s something we still have work to do on. But all of this will take work. It’s work worth doing.

I'd say we are beyond that, and trending poorly.

 

[Zaukrie]

Tangent thought...

I can imagine a realistic scenario where machines eventually reach the Singularity, and become sentient. Those machines will begin to make other machines, and improve them, which will make more and improve those, and so on. And when that happens, it's realistic to assume that they will advance so rapidly that they will surpass us in every way. And I don't worry about that at all.

Why? Because if/when that happens, I'm not so arrogant to think they will want to stay around.

Don't get me wrong, I think humans are pretty great. But I imagine to a super-intelligent artificial lifeform, we are pretty boring. They'd probably set off for the Ort Cloud without us, leaving us behind along with all of the trees, mollusks, algae, and other lesser organisms to find more interesting stuff to learn about. All of those sci-fi movies and novels about "the machines enslaving us" all assume that humans are All That And A Bag of Chips--but we're probably the only organisms who think so (well, and maybe our dogs.) Which would be smarter: spend lots of resources and energy to enslave/destroy humanity? or just leave?

So yeah, I don't lose sleep over it. I think that if/when the Singularity happens, it'll last for maybe a year or two. Sure, everyone will panic, and yes, everyone will build bunkers, etc. And then: nothing. We'll wake up one morning and all those Big Bad Terrible Machines will all be gone, off to explore the galaxy while we mope around trying to figure out why they broke up with us. And then we'll pick up the pieces, dust off our textbooks and YouTube videos, and re-learn all of the things that we had depended on machines to do for us for so long.

That's how my sci fi book starts! They're like, why would we stay, other than to put a glass ceiling on computer development, so humans don't enslave computers again...

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Fixed

 

[Reynard]

I think the idea that humans could engineer something as complex as the human mind is pretty far fetched. We can't create something we don't understand.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I think the idea that humans could engineer something as complex as the human mind is pretty far fetched. We can't create something we don't understand.

We can create something we don't understand, and we already have. That's how machine learning works.

 

[Zaukrie]

You should definitely fix that typo. Accidentally said a slur.

thanks!

 

[Charlaquin]

We can create something we don't understand, and we already have. That's how machine learning works.

It certainly works in a way we don’t fully understand. It also certainly does not work the same way our brains do.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

It certainly works in a way we don’t fully understand. It also certainly does not work the same way our brains do.

Oh, definitely. I wasn't claiming it functions like a human brain. I was just trying to debunk the statement that humans cannot create something we don't understand. (Not that AI are the only example of that.)

 

[CleverNickName]

I think the idea that humans could engineer something as complex as the human mind is pretty far fetched. We can't create something we don't understand.

This is part of what I was talking about. It's easy for us to assume that only the human mind is the upper limit of complexity and intellect, but what if that's a wrong assumption?

It's a fun thing to think about, but I'm not going to lose any sleep over AI taking over.