Hasbro CEO Reiterates That AI Isn't Used to Make D&D Because of the Game's Audience and Creators

mamba · 2026-03-11T00:10:59+0000

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
Given that countries around the world are moving to ban social media for anyone under 16, I think it's certainly possible that social media is on the way out.

I hope so, it should be treated like tobacco, heavily fined for the damage done and ideally banned

Clint_L · 2026-03-11T01:22:43+0000

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
It's getting closer, since they're not trying to do so on Section 230 content grounds, but about creating an intentionally addictive product for young people.

Given that countries around the world are moving to ban social media for anyone under 16, I think it's certainly possible that social media is on the way out.

I hate social media, but this seems like wishful thinking to me. You can't legislate away what people want. Nobody is being forced to use social media, even if they feel like they are. It's the same with AI. We can and should try to control them, but they aren't going anywhere (and AI is only getting started).

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-11T01:30:54+0000

Clint_L said:
I hate social media, but this seems like wishful thinking to me. You can't legislate away what people want.

Every lawmaker back to Hammurabi has been willing to try.

And maybe you can't legislate away drunk driving, but you can't definitely make the cost for doing so very high (depending on nation or state within the US).

Clint_L said:
Nobody is being forced to use social media, even if they feel like they are.

If it ends up that Meta/Instagram/Facebook/Whatsapp are forced to pay meaningful damages for intentionally targeting tweens and teens with their products -- and those damages are substantially upheld on appeal -- I think you'll definitely see social media companies wither, since that's a big part of their economic model. Some will no doubt fold or pivot to doing something else.

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-11T01:33:31+0000

mamba said:
I hope so, it should be treated like tobacco, heavily fined for the damage done and ideally banned

Speaking of legislating something away, guess which states on this map have the highest state taxes on tobacco and which have the lowest?

MoonSong · 2026-03-11T01:33:57+0000

Clint_L said:
I hate social media, but this seems like wishful thinking to me. You can't legislate away what people want. Nobody is being forced to use social media, even if they feel like they are. It's the same with AI. We can and should try to control them, but they aren't going anywhere (and AI is only getting started).

If you had been a student in the last few years, odds are you would have been forced by at least one teacher too in love with new technologies, or the control they can have by forcefully making their students follow their Facebook page or Instagram.

Being forced is relative, I guess. Nobody so far has had a gun to their head to force them to use Twitter. But a sufficiently pushy educator, employer, or bully can certainly force someone's hand.

doctorbadwolf · 2026-03-11T04:02:39+0000

Reynard said:
You can't control that. Nor should you. Every generation decides what is "cool." Just because you hate GenAI doesn't mean GenAlpha is wrong for embracing it.

This idea that there is a fundamental, objective "right" regarding AI generated content is old man BS. The world is rapidly changing. We all remember the discomfort of blogs overtaking traditional journalism in our information ecosystem. People really desperately need to stop pretending that their comfort zone is somehow "right." It's weakness.

No it is objectively a moral ill to support generative ai.

It has set back climate gains, uses more power than while towns per data center, and actively harms cognition and is a direct danger to psychologically vulnerable people.

doctorbadwolf · 2026-03-11T04:06:25+0000

Tea Cozy said:
31% of teens surveyed said AI will have a positive effect on society over the next two decades. 34% think the impact will be equally positive and negative. 26% said AI's impact will be negative.

That isnt very optimistic for ai.

60% think the best case scenario is an even split of harm and benefit. lol

doctorbadwolf · 2026-03-11T04:11:25+0000

Blue said:
Vehemently disagree. It sounds like you have personal experience if you're going to educator conferences, my personal experience is having children plus a bevy of nieces and nephews, up through university age (well, my eldest nephew just got his Masters), and them having wide swaths of online friends across geographical boundaries.

The people who sell things to educators want to integrate AI into everything. And please recognize that what the sellers are pushing and what kids learning want has no inherent overlap. It can overlap, it can be diametrically opposed. There's no correlation between them.

Students seem split between incredibly strongly against AI, and a smaller segment who use it to avoid doing any work. The anti-AI push makes the most vocal here at ENWorld seem milquetoast.

One of my kids has a youtube series (Animator vs. Animation) that they've been watching for years. A few months back they had a sponsor segment for technical classes, and one of the ones offered was AI. My kids was ready to swear off this creator they loved, I had to talk them down from this wasn't the creator's opinion, just a class offered by a sponsor that supported the series financially.

Yep the kids who actually understand ai absolutely despise it, and think using it is extremely cringe.

Clint_L · 2026-03-11T05:24:11+0000

MoonSong said:
If you had been a student in the last few years, odds are you would have been forced by at least one teacher too in love with new technologies, or the control they can have by forcefully making their students follow their Facebook page or Instagram.

Being forced is relative, I guess. Nobody so far has had a gun to their head to force them to use Twitter. But a sufficiently pushy educator, employer, or bully can certainly force someone's hand.

I’m a teacher actually. Forcing students onto your Facebook page or Instagram feed is not only unenforceable it is also incredibly unethical. Not to mention creepy and weird. We are specifically forbidden to even invite students OR alumni less than a full year out of school to join any social media. When we go on a trip and I collect texts so I can contact students in case of emergency, I have to immediately delete them the second the trip ends.

Getting back to the original topic, there are certain aspects of technology that you can and IMO should regulate. But blanket bans on AI use by consenting adults is way beyond the pale. And that horse left the stable long ago anyway. What remains is to manage the ongoing situation.

LuisCarlos17f · 2026-03-11T05:34:42+0000

Turing test - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

We aren't talking about copy and paste from wikipedia. If a student uses AI to write summaries and essays, will the teacher be able to tell?

The risk of using AI is forgetting the tradional and "old-school" way. For example AI could tell you the novel "Ana Karenina" but if you don't read yourself the book then you miss the spiritual concerns by Konstantín "Kostya" Dmítrievich Levin (main character of a parallel plot).

* I tried use AI to write a funny poem in English languange, but I wanted the punchline in the end, in the final phrase, to cause surprise. If the poem "spoilered" the punchline too soon then it wouldn't be so funny.