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I am firmly convinced that the ability for anyone to create, using AI, its own campaign book and distribute it for free (for the benefit of those who can't be bothered to ask an LLM to do so) will eventually lead the price to zero (or near zero, for those who'll want to support an innovative...

You were asking for cases where it's acceptable to use an IP "without notification, permission or compensation." I was only providing some of the many cases where it's perfectly acceptable to do so. Yes, as a general stance. I think that as long as anything isn't illegal, it should be allowed...

The text and datamining exception (in the EU at least, but other areas have adopted something similar) explicitly mentions AI and was designed to allow the development of AI. It's not a loophole, it's a conscious choice.

Much like any other limitation to copyright: the legislator determined boundaries on what the creator of an intellectual work can choose to limit (and asks compensation for), based on the collective benefits (or lack thereof) of granting copyright protection against a type of use. For example...

Except that piracy evokes something intrinsicly illegal: it's an overused rhetoric to call something one doesn't like by the name of a crime. There is nothing illegal in training a model through scraping in several countries. Scraping or datamining would be appropriate, since it doesn't carry...

This is one of the failings of this book. Despite being fun and evocative, and having lots of cool scenes, it has implemented the weidest way of distilling the lore to the reader: on a path that lead to death. Since we didn't die on our way in, we barely remember Icon and he appears totally out...

Can't answer that for you: I am firmly in the "wouldn't buy from Wotc" camp. Not because I have reservations about AI, but simply because, if the tools become advanced enough that the quality of the output becomes undistinguishable from a man-made product, an RPG product will still be something...

Honestly, most fonts you can easily find tend to fail on characters like é, ï, ç or à. It's basically impossible to write in cursive, especially "hasty, badly drawn cursive". I got OK results if writing in English, granted, but that doesn't help me. The time I need to dedicate to prop-making for...

You might be surprised. I have colleagues who just cut and paste their professional writings and ask an AI to remove grammar, stylistic and spelling errors routinely. They find that more efficient that the spellchecking found in office products. And they just drop their text into the same AI and...

You shouldn't. The point of having tool empowering more people to put their campaign notes on the Internet by turning them into a more finalized product with AI is to increase the amount of free material being available. Why would you pay? Right now, there are lots of people offering their...

I am not sure they are going to print anything any longer, for other reasons than AI, but I wasn't thinking of deadtree books, indeed.

It might even help get more exposure to human creativity. If we have a people with tremendous imagination that has made a very innovative campaign for his group, right now, he can either store it on his shelf, never to be seen again, or put it online in the haphazard state of his notes and hope...

This is an important distinction to be made. Lots of people expressed concern that AI work would be unimaginative and inferior in quality to a human-made product, and answered based on that. Saying that the product would be similar to what it is now means that the quality argument can be...

According to an Ipsos poll in January this year, 74% of the 18-25 are actively using AI, while only 35% of the 45-59 years old do. While it's possible that younger people are using AI despite being staunchly against it, it's more realistic to consider that a sample of a population of an older...

In the next section, we're awed by how cool Hasan, the leader of the Marijah sect of Assassins that plagued our friend (?) Tobias de Vantery's Templars, is. He avoids traps, display the strength of three men despite having a wiry frame... and so on. He also does some long explaining of the twin...

I think it's more complex than that. The existence of regulations on house building is sending a signal to non-informed buyers that they can trust the quality of the building they buy. Depending on where you live, it might not be the case (if anything, I've only seen regulation become more...

The problem comes from the lawsuit, obviously. We created an artificial scarcity (you can't imitate a Rolex without going to jail) and we then complain that not many people can have a Rolex. Adressing the root of the problem might either allow people to wear Rolex-like watches en masse, or stop...

Except that art is easy to reproduce and achieve the same effect (while no two people can drive the Ferrari at the same time). Most of my enjoyment of art doesn't rely on owning it: while I do enjoy seeing a play, I must confess that I spend more time watching copies of acting through Netflix or...