D&D General Todd Kenreck Let Go from WotC

[MonsterEnvy]

picked a bad example there…

Not really don't know why so many are so down on it.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I wouldn't call it fearmongering. A business is all about maximising profits: increase revenue, reduce costs. Writing modules has a bit of paint-by-numbers to it. Will an AI-generated module be incredibly innovative? Maybe not. Will it be good enough to sell? Realistically, yes.

You'd need (in my opinion) some sort of skeleton team to review the output before it went to market, but I think this is a very realistic near future scenario.

The biggest hurdle would be public backlash i.e. we ain't buying it. As time goes on, and AI-generated content becomes more publicly acceptable (on its own, not a bad thing), this hurdle grows shorter.

It's Fearmongering cause it has no basis beyond paranoia and feels, from disgruntled people who tend to ignore all the details that don't support it.

 

[Micah Sweet]

it would make stock go up and right. investors seem to love that

Actually using it would do that. Publicly announcing they are doing it will not.

 

[bedir than]

Actually using it would do that. Publicly announcing they are doing it will not.

No, look at the stock of every company that announces shifts towards public AI. It's a not-secret bell to higher valuations. That's why so many Fortune 500 are making very public announcements about AI.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

AI.

Who would know the difference?

I didn't even do a quick pass over it. Didn't even have to format it. That's just how the engine spat it out. Give it to an Editor to maybe change Enchantment to Evocation... or not.

This is not using the correct formatting and language. While that can be fixed, there is now no point to having used the AI cause a human could have come up with the same thing and not needed to fix it.

Stop just assuming things will happen cause you don't like a company.

 

[Scribe]

Actually using it would do that. Publicly announcing they are doing it will not.

At the current time, they can only express desire to use AI. That makes the shareholders happy.

The people buying don't matter unless a large enough outcry is generated.

They cannot privately tell shareholders they are going to use AI. It must be public to make the line go up.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Once again I am shocked people can make the leap that because they laid off a marketer this means they will replace their designers with AI.

 

[Steampunkette]

It's Fearmongering cause it has no basis beyond paranoia and feels, from disgruntled people who tend to ignore all the details that don't support it.

... yeah this is just a needless attack. But if you want details that support it:

1) Every corporation wants to make as much money for it's shareholders as possible while spending as little money to do it. Cutting their design staff to replace workers with AI would meet those criteria.

2) They have publicly pushed towards AI twice and been rebuked for it and backed down. But the CEO just executes the will of the Board, and the Board wants to use AI.

3) They also tried to slip AI art out without announcing it and got caught and tossed out a boilerplate Mea Culpa over it.

4) Some of their biggest names and publicly facing people are either leaving for a company that -isn't- publicly traded and thus can stand by its moral principles, or just getting laid off or removed.

This isn't paranoia or 'feels'. This is understanding what the animal is and recognizing behavioral patterns.

This is not using the correct formatting and language. While that can be fixed, there is now no point to having used the AI cause a human could have come up with the same thing and not needed to fix it.

Stop just assuming things will happen cause you don't like a company.

The only thing it missed was "Classes".

Stop assuming my emotional state, or how I feel about a company, Envy. It doesn't make for productive conversation.

 

[dave2008]

Maybe, but a thing that saves them money and is easy to do is more likely to be done than a similar thing that saves them money but is being put under a judgemental microscope by the internet.

I think the writing is equally or even more negatively judged than art. The issue it that for some/many it is easier to spot AI art. However, if they use AI writing and get caught, I think the backlash would be even greater than what happened with the AI modified art.

 

[mamba]

Not really don't know why so many are so down on it.

as far as picking scenarios that make sense, the far real goblins do not really fit the bill. Lost Mine was made worse and the rest of the adventure is pretty disconnected from it, so yeah, not the best example. This ignores the minor nitpicky stuff.