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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gorgon Zee" data-source="post: 9858542" data-attributes="member: 75787">While evaluating creativity is hard, there seems to be a reasonable amount of evidence that an LLM can generate material that is perceived as more creative than that created by an average person for a given domain. However the issue is exactly what you have suggested above -- it's creative the same sort of way every time. So a group of people is more creative than a group of LLMs.They are also terrible at handling multiple factors at once. So for linear adventures -- dungeon crawls, heists, that sort of thing -- they should be able to do a pretty good job, they really cannot handle a complex plot. I have had some success with prompts for specific scenes ("create one paragraph length outlines of a Pendragon encounter which could test a knight's chastity"). They were pretty similar, but they did the job and I could pick one out and it did save me some time. But when I asked it to summarize the plot of Agatha Christie's Peril at End House (which it did well) and then design a TTRPG adventure around that, it was beyond unusably bad; it had to keep track of 10 characters in both the Christie and derived work, create 5 scenes and around a dozen clues. It was just unable to do that in any way adequately.And there are no innovations in the pipeline for AI that will improve this. They have run out of data to train on, the context windows are already sufficient to hold the info needed, and RAG or agent approaches don't help. It's not an issue with finding the right material -- I fed it all that. The issue is a fundamental inability to create complex output based on syntactic patterns only.So, overall, my guess is that AIs can be trained to be as good as an above-average zero-prep GM. If that's the sort of game you like, you should have no issues. Feed it your sandbox world and set a direction and it will build the next next encounter for you one after another -- so long as, like in the original Star Trek TV show, you don't expect any long-term effects of your actions. But if you are looking for a game that has a more complex plot involving many game world factors together, I don't currently see a path for AIs to do that.</blockquote>

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