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Right. So, you get this, but then.... One example, from 44 years ago, does not a recognizable pattern of "plenty" make. If you are trying to reference X2, you are doing a callback to the era of "skilled play", in which players learn they will be punished for being dumb. And you admit...

I'm using a Roku Ultra. Finally cut the cable TV subscription just last week - I was expecting my provider to make it difficult, give me a hard time, or try to sell me some deal to keep the cable, but... no. It was smooth and easy.

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.

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.

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.

One of course wonders how many of those 900,000 are actually bots....

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...

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...

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...

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.

Well, pretty much impossible for the typical individual user. Not at all impossible for a statistician with some time on their hands.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

So many issues in communication arise in phrasing, that I felt the difference needed to be pointed out.

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.

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...