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Not sure why folks are so serious about this. If you can't joke about the coming AI apocalypse, what else is there?? There's a pretty visceral anti-AI bias though. I'm not trying to exaggerate or evangelize AI. I keep saying that I'm both amazed and afraid of it at the same time. I'm just...

I realize that? Of course, I could say the same about some of the actual people I know.

I can see it now. Us back in our caves with our bone dice. Sorry! Morbid humor. If you can't beat 'em join 'em (the AIs).

I agree if for no other reason than the bloodcurdling aversion many have to the idea of AI-generated material. The revulsion will sustain entire industries and hobbies for a while. How about when they sell robot dogs with AI personalities? It's a dog, but it can also ask you, "Hi, dragoner, how...

If it gets to where I can't even tell it's an AI anymore, then I don't know. A phone sitting at the head of a table surrounded by my warm-blooded friends wouldn't be too bad.... I wouldn't love it, but I think I could live with it. The bigger concern is whether I'd still have a job to be able...

"Meanwhile almost any system feels easy and intuitive if it's what you are used to." Ain't that the truth. That's one reason D&D variants always start out with an unfair advantage.

It can though. Easily.

Understood. I would only say that here on enworld our fellow humans routinely point out their issues with us -- their fellow humans. We're also imperfect, and we lie, cheat, make mistakes as well. We also make things up out of whole cloth (hallucinate). I know this sounds crazy, but they're...

Problematic, perhaps, but not altogether unlike a human GM. I'm not advocating for the widespread use of AI GMs, BTW. I'm simply saying that there's a lot there to consider. It isn't an easily dismissed concept anymore. AI is far beyond the easily dismissible stage now and still improving...

I won't be able to get too far with it for a few hours, but here's what I've kicked off using ChatGPT 5 Plus ($20/month tier). This took it about 5 seconds to do. A lot comes down to using the prompts to guide and modify its behavior as you go along. Of course, that's also the case when playing...

I've only done one-shots of a homebrew d6 system so far (created with ChatGPT's help), haven't asked for much world building, but I'm sure it can handle far more than I've done. After work I'll do a quick test of something using 5e and post it.

I haven't seen them in a store for many years. I have seen old copies of them on eBay, and I still have the first three in a box somewhere in my garage. They were somewhat like the Shadowdark core rulebook in that they contained hundreds of tables for crits, random encounters, magic items...

Don't know if it's worthy of a callout, but how about just the complexity introduced by poorly organized rulebooks? Some books are just so disorganized that I struggle to find almost anything in them.

Sort of. It does make mistakes and mix up names from time to time, but I think this overstates where they are right now. In my experience, ChatGPT 5 mixes up character names in one-shot campaigns less often than I do (and I am, in fact, human).

That's a gross oversimplification. They do regurgitate info, but LLMs are regurgitating based on many billions of data points. Their predictive ability isn't like a video game where an NPC pulls from 100 different possible responses to an inquiry. They're pulling the most apt next word in...

For sure. The threats from AI are growing exponentially each day. Anyone who runs a website knows firsthand how much their WAFs, CDNs and load balancers are getting hammered by AI bots now. Plus, we're seeing new forms of malware emerge that are so dynamic and "intelligent" that they may soon...

I appreciate the touchy nature of the subject, but I very much disagree. It hasn't been that for months, if not at least a year. It's advancing well beyond the slop stage and is already such an accurate simulation of a real person that I don't believe most people can even tell when they're...

Thank you. Might I suggest "AI frippery" or "AI toilet water"?

Hey, AI slop is a lazy way to dismiss what AI can already do, much less where it's headed in the next few years.