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None of the AI companies have any incentive to create a model that creates a fake and believable edit history. The only use for such a model is to commit fraud, for "artists" contracted to deliver non-AI art but wanting to fudge it. That's not a very large potential customer base, and training...

I believe Larian's license is specifically to make Baldur's Gate 3, they don't have any general license to make D&D video games. Non-exclusive licenses like that are usually royalty based rather than lump-sum payments. Now, if Larian proposes to negotiate a license for a BG4, I suspect WotC...

If I pitch a campaign with character restricitions, it's because those restrictions support the theme of the campaign. So if a player wants to play a character against those restrictions, he's probably not very excited about the specific theme, he justs wants to play D&D, any D&D. Themed...

I think the author also has to respect that once the reader has bought a book, they are free to read it however they like. If you don't want people to interpret your writings, your only option is not to publish. Saying that "the author meant X with this book", may be disrespectful, but stating...

Yes, exactly. It's not my logic, it's the standard. Once you see version numbers like 1.15.6 you realize it can't be decimals. :geek:

There are 4 versions between 3.0 and 3.5, not 49. Version numbers are not decimal numbers. Either way it shouldn't have been called 3.5e :)

What happened to the 23 versions between 5.0 and 5.24?

Good example really. LotR was written during and after WW2, of course the war would have influenced Tolkien when he was writing it. It's not surprising that analogies can be found, regardless of what Tolkien said.

I'm going to call it D&D 5.1, because that is the standard versioning nomenclature for a new version that adds new features but doesn't break backwards compatibility. Version 3.5 of D&D coming directly after 3.0 was an abomination.

The generative AI we have today is really bad at generating long-form content. You might be able to cook up a chatbot trained on the combined writings of Gary Gygax that presents a fairly convincing facsimile of what a chat with him would be like, but trying to get AI to generate a complete...

Not available to druids, but friends and a shovel is an option.

Interesting. Do you have any specific examples?

There is an entire school of literary criticism that holds that authorial intent is completely irrelevant when it comes to understanding a work. The work exists on its own, and only what is in the work matters, not what the author planned to put in there. If an author feels that this is...

Most "peasants" aren't going to earn coin or pay for their living expenses with money, they'll primarily eat what they farm and live in the cottage they inherited from their father, who in turn got it from his father. They'll make do as long as they aren't taxed too hard and monsters are kept at...

Then you should re-examine your assumptions.

But the government allows companies to exist because they provide goods and services. If the only thing companies did was to enrich their owners they would be illegal.

I'm allowed to learn to dance by watching Morrus. Why not let an AI learn too? Why can't it look at anything publicly available and learn just ike people do? There are obvious reasons ... but at the core, that argument will be there and in the end will win.

No, that's not what generative AI does. AI detects patterns in random visual noise that resembles what the user requested, then repeats the process.

No, that is what's called free trade. Capitalism is a system where the means of production is controlled by private owners for profit. Capitalism and free trade often go hand in hand, but they are different concepts.

Terminated! :cool: Hasta la vista, baby!