WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

[Zardnaar]

Voted probably not. It would have to be a product so good as would have to buy it.

 

[DrJawaPhD]

I voted Yes because AI DMs are going to be huge in the future, whether WotC utilizes them or not. They already exist now and are improving quickly. That's more of a replacement of the video gaming experience though, less so for the table top experience

People voting No Never are delusional, literally everything in the near future will be produced using at least some amount of AI. This is like the 90's when people thought the internet was some newfangled fad that would die out

 

[Charlaquin]

People voting No Never are delusional, literally everything in the near future will be produced using at least some amount of AI. This is like the 90's when people thought the internet was some newfangled fad that would die out

It’s not like that at all. Nobody thinks AI is a fad. Lots of people have serious ethical concerns about the use of AI and actively don’t want to support it because of that. Those are completely different motivations.

 

[DrJawaPhD]

It’s not like that at all. Nobody thinks AI is a fad. Lots of people have serious ethical concerns about the use of AI and actively don’t want to support it because of that. Those are completely different motivations.

The ethical concerns are definitely legit, I'm not dismissing those at all. I still don't think it's realistic though for anyone to think they'll "Never" buy AI enhanced products at any point in the future unless they're planning to become a hermit off the grid

The sad reality is that literally every company will be using AI and the only opportunity we'll have is to put our economic support into the companies that we each perceive as using it the most responsibly

 

[Chaltab]

People voting No Never are delusional, literally everything in the near future will be produced using at least some amount of AI. This is like the 90's when people thought the internet was some newfangled fad that would die out

We're delusional because we don't want to support products made using regurgitation machines trained on stolen data? Like what even is this take.

Edit: The question isn't whether we'll never purchase any products that use AI... it's about WOTC products.

 

[Incenjucar]

I have no use for fast food regurgitate art, and a search engine that can be wrong is worse than what we had in the 90s. AI literally cannot produce anything I don't already have access to.

 

[Chaltab]

The ethical concerns are definitely legit, I'm not dismissing those at all. I still don't think it's realistic though for anyone to think they'll "Never" buy AI enhanced products at any point in the future unless they're planning to become a hermit off the grid

'Enhanced' is a loaded word there.

Just look at AI-'enhanced' movie remasters. Those extra pixels aren't really an enhancement when out of focus faces are sharpened and background details are lost in a slurry of color because of the algorithm getting confused.

 

[Incenjucar]

There's a hypothetical scenario where AI is capable of actual creativity, but it's a very different design than LLMs and requires the Get Rich Quick folks to fund a lot of complex science - an actual deep, multi-decade study on how human creativity works across scores of cultures, plus developing a massive database of coherent information which would be a massive boon to universities and research in general.

Until such a unicorn era, actual creative work is readily available in vast quantities.

 

[Lanefan]

I choose not to use social media (other than EN World), and despite its proliferation into every aspect of life I still survive. I choose to not buy things from Amazon and instead spend as locally as possible and I'm doing alright.

Same here, to both parts of that statement. High five!

And yet I'm also no fan of copyright, at least as it currently works and particularly when it comes to the internet. Call me naive, but I'm still of the mind that the internet is - and should always be - a place for free and open exchange of ideas without monetization or commercialism; and that whatever is publicly posted online is there for the free and unfettered use of all.

My only real objection to AI is its inevitable abuse as a money-making venture. The concept - that people can use it to do things they couldn't do before - is IMO excellent, and worth pursuing.

 

[Zardnaar]

I have no use for fast food regurgitate art, and a search engine that can be wrong is worse than what we had in the 90s. AI literally cannot produce anything I don't already have access to.

It can regurgitate far beyond what I can do. It's also better than average artist hawking their stuff on social media.

I don't buy either would rather pay more for tasteful oil on canvas. Mates shop sells them from around $1300 USD.