Recent content by The Firebird

I'm young for this space (just shy of 30). But, I sought out older discussion boards because the algorithm is better for involved discussions than modern social media. I do wonder when they'll go away. So much stuff is on discord now, where you can't get into the weeds of anything and anything...

Freeing their brain for high-value knowledge work (podcasts)

Ime it is the opposite. Before I spent more cognitive capacity figuring out the nuts and bolts of how to accomplish a specific goal. Now my thinking is higher level--what goals are important, what should be prioritized?

I can see how they ended up here--animated means the actors can return without looking ancient, the interim period means it can feel similar to the show. But I can't help feel like they're drawing water from a dead well. Good things come to end sometimes.

Yeah, I think this is a good point. The challenge it poses is, maybe you only learn to be original by creating a lot of unoriginal stuff first, and if that gets offloaded to AI, it is harder to develop. But then, maybe it will push people to make bolder creative choices.

There's something to this case. Charles Mee's remaking project develops it by creating plays that are sort of collages, cobbled together from extant material. (For Example). But, I think you can overstate the case here. Being influenced by does not mean derivative of. As Mee puts it: And so...

Do you find they're using the AI to generate ideas and then trying to state those in their own words, or using their own ideas and asking AI to help execute? (I assume some of both).

I recognized the first 3 passages, so I could tell. It's a fun experiment and it seems people in general can't. But, this is still relatively short passages. And these two ideas are in tension: "Skeptics have argued that A.I. can never be truly creative, because it lacks the kind of worldly...

I saw that too, and if anything it made me less confident. If you're talking about doing one movie, great. If you're talking about doing three, maybe you're just talking about fun ideas.

I don't doubt your bad professional experiences or your willingness to try things. You said you were wondering about people who are pro AI. The most straightforward answer is that they are using a different product in a different way. (Probably; you didn't say what your workflow was). E.g., I...

Would love to see it, but I'm not going to expect much

How were you using it? Those are the issues I'd anticipate from a chatbot interface. I've not done campaign generation in a while but I've worked on projects with similar issues. If you use something like Claude Code or Codex, you can create some directories and files to store memory (NPCs.md...

Yep, it could have a very limited run.

I think the boycott attempt in the rpg community had some success in getting Wizards to declare they weren't going to use AI art. But, I also think those tactics are going to be less effective now that AI is genuinely useful. RPGs are small and networked enough that there's still hope of...

That's...a very uncharitable reading of my post, which explicitly notes years of disruption as a consequence. By 'disruption' I don't mean 'minor harms only'.