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    D&D General Wearing a lantern on your belt?

    Mod Note: The smug condescension displayed here seems to prioritize something other than effective communication or education. Maybe consider the dynamic this engenders the next time someone reacts poorly to a post - we all have control of, and responsibility for, the atmosphere we create.
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    Realistic Combat that's Simple(ish)

    Mod Note: It is clear that both of you have forgotten (or chosen to forget) that making a discussion personal is apt to make problems. And now you have a problem. So, going forward, are you going to remember, or shall we just have both of you ushered out of this discussion? Your choice.
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    AN AI band has 900,000 monthly listeners

    I am far more interested in, say, Tracy Chapman's, Bruce Springsteen's and John Mellencamp's musical takes on the impact of the lack of opportunity on the human soul than I am ChatGPT's opinions on those matters, if that's what you mean.
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    AN AI band has 900,000 monthly listeners

    One of course wonders how many of those 900,000 are actually bots....
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    Judge decides case based on AI-hallucinated case law

    With all due respect, I am not sure what planet you are on. I am on a planet in which measles, which at the beginning of the century was considered eliminated from the US, is making a comeback due to a decided lack of fidelity to reality. That lack of fidelity has elevated people spreading...
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    Judge decides case based on AI-hallucinated case law

    So, that's exacty the issue I was trying to raise. When an AI calls itself "MechaH****r", we can easily see and not take is seriously. When they go off the deep end, they are less dangerous. When they are biased, but don't go off the deep end, is when their bias can influence you most. When...
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    Judge decides case based on AI-hallucinated case law

    Note that while you are focusing on the training data, and certainly that's one way to introduce bias into such a system, that's probably the hard way to do it. To get Grok to do what it did, my understanding is that they didn't retrain it. They seem to have effectively altered filters on the...
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    Judge decides case based on AI-hallucinated case law

    A generative AI built by a government or government agency can only be trusted as far as your government can be trusted. I cannot say more than that, or it will be politics.
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    Judge decides case based on AI-hallucinated case law

    Well, pretty much impossible for the typical individual user. Not at all impossible for a statistician with some time on their hands.
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    D&D 5E (2024) When the characters strike it rich in the first adventure...

    But, in this space, one of the consequences of spending it is people knowing about it. If the party comes back (from a place literally called "Treasure Fields"?) and flashing cash... people wanting to get that cash is a pretty obvious consequence. In the real world, when you win a major...
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    D&D 5E (2024) When the characters strike it rich in the first adventure...

    What level of play do you intend to start with? The question comes to mind that the PCs might reasonably have to spend most of their efforts protecting their wealth...
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    Judge decides case based on AI-hallucinated case law

    To some degree, yes. Exactly - Search engines hand you a list of sources, to which you can apply your own critical reading skills, if you have them. LLMs generally do not, leaving the user without as much recourse. Also, there is a relevant psychological issue: A search engine does a search...
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    What Is Your Go-To Pick-Up TTRPG?

    For a one-shot? Fate Accelerated Edition. Some time ago, I put together a short set of questions I can ask a group, from which I can improvise a session without prior preparation.
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    Judge decides case based on AI-hallucinated case law

    I hope that Grok's anti-Semitic meltdown has folks thinking a moment about how generative AI actually operates, and the implications for its use. Musk is a ham-handed dullard, so when he sought to adjust Grok, he did so poorly, without subtlety, and the thing went kind of berserk. But in the...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Shifts to Franchise Model, Dan Ayoub Named as Head

    The end result of doing it piecemeal with a setting here or there, and doing it with the entre kit and kaboodle in one package is not at all the same.
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    Dungeons & Dragons Shifts to Franchise Model, Dan Ayoub Named as Head

    So many issues in communication arise in phrasing, that I felt the difference needed to be pointed out.
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    D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting.

    If you choose to run a specific style of game, and refuse to alter it "because it isn't that kind of game", you are being bound by a restrictive principle.
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    What do you do when a Player dies?

    I had a long-running Classic Deadlands game, and one of the players started having health issues, and decided to step away from the game until he got them under control. He specifically said he wanted us to keep playing, so he could come back when things got better. Unfortunately, his health...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Shifts to Franchise Model, Dan Ayoub Named as Head

    Sure, but that wouldn't be licensing out "D&D". It would be licensing out Dark Sun, or whatever the bit is.
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    Dungeons & Dragons Shifts to Franchise Model, Dan Ayoub Named as Head

    Well, "D&D" in this context is not a single thing. It is a brand under the umbrella of which many things could be made. One would not expect them to license the entire brand out in one go...
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