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Message: <blockquote data-quote="M.T. Black" data-source="post: 9464211" data-attributes="member: 6782171">Thanks for tackling this issue, Scott. In the RPG scene currently, the perception of AI is overwhelmingly negative, so it takes some courage to swim against the tide.Some AI-critics speak as if they think the whole thing could just go away. I don't think there is anyway of putting the genie back in the bottle, and that we'll find ourselves using it more and more for everyday tasks, even if we don't realize it. For example, a lot of folk don't realize that Microsoft Editor (the spelling and grammar checker in MS Word) is AI-powered. Once a little heat goes out of the topic, I hope we can have some productive conversations. With regards to commercial use, few people want to pay for AI copy-pasta. People value and will pay for human effort and creativity - that's why craft beer costs more, as do hand-woven rugs. I think WOTC will be pretty foolish if they start filling their books with GPT-generated text, but I don't believe that will happen.With regards to personal use, I think Scott identified some good use cases. He mentioned lore summary. I have thousands of digital pages of content about my campaign world, Iskandar, in a variety of file formats. I've loaded it into GPT and then asked the system questions ("Tell me everything you know about Gahrian the Sun God"). It's much better than trying to look through half a dozen files. (Sure, there are advanced indexing tools you can get that will bring the information up. But GPT spits it out in a nice, readable paragraph and eliminates redundancy, prioritizes key points, etc).Another use is with random tables. I use random tables a lot, but it is time consuming to keep flipping through the pages of a book while rolling dice and recording the results. You can copy-paste several random tables into GPT and ask it to roll up the results. It's had problems with random numbers in the past, but is much better now. This sort of thing can save oodles of time.</blockquote>

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