I'm A Banana
Potassium-Rich
Technologies that are disruptive are scary. People will lose jobs and have to learn something new. But that has always been true throughout history. Those people that were really good at making stone tools had to switch over once copper and other metals replaced the need for that skillset. Obviously over the past half century or so, computers have accelerated that change dramatically. But disruptive technologies are always coming onto the scene and we always adjust.
I don't think the appeal to history is as reassuring as it maybe could be.
Part of how we "learned something new" in the wake of the industrial revolution was to pursue war and death on an unprecedented scale that showed its teeth with genocide and ended with the prospect of a few skittish apes destroying countless living beings in a nuclear apocalypse.
Cars replaced horses. Horses didn't learn something new, there just became less of them in use.
We invented agriculture and suddenly we had taxes and kings and empires and churches.
We invented bronze and then had the Bronze Age Collapse when the trade networks were suddenly not as reliable as they had been.
The genie never goes back in the bottle, but "adjust" is doing a lot of lift here. The dangers of human life are a hydra. Cut off one head and two more replace it.
I don't think AI is an epoch-changing thing, at least at the moment. But I do think it is something that renders late stage capitalism more dangerous for individual workers. And that's a problem for me. Until we have something like Universal Basic Income or robust industry unionization, AI D&D content generation is only going to be a way to make more people too poor and too stressed to be able to afford the leisure of playing D&D. It could be cool. It is actually dangerous to livelihoods.