WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

[Belen]

No. I consider the entire AI LLM industry a pack of pirates that ingest information, train their models, make bank, and provide zero return to the people who created the content that trained their engine.

 

[TiQuinn]

Interesting topic... considering that we can use AI to generate RPG content for our own use, if publishers are now going to use AI too then the question becomes, why would we still need publishers?

This. If the product is truly just AI produced, the only thing being offered by WotC is the binding and finished product, there’s little preventing me from using the same tools to create something similar as a digital product without paying WotC.

Regardless, I’m not predisposed to supporting this right now. Given there are alternative game designers out there who are putting out quality products, I’m not inclined to give my money over to a large company looking to eliminate people from the creative or editing process.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

I can understand that.

What do you think about WotC using their own archive of text and images?

At least to me that would still be "no."

I used to work as a freelance illustrator (not for WotC.) Regardless of what the technical legality of the issue might be, (I would need to check the text of the old contracts,) I certainly did not imagine that what I was getting paid then was ushering the obsolesce of the real artists, and had that been the deal, I would have declined. I'm sure a lot of artists that worked for WotC and produced that archive feel the same way.

 

[J.Quondam]

No, certainly not for writing and/or art.

Fwiw, there are other places to insert AI into the workflow, such as editorial (proofreading, rewriting, etc), layout, and so forth; as well as (I suppose) non-creative/administrative stuff not directly related to product. These are harder for a reader to detect, but also worth considering for anyone who doesn't want to support the declining IP protection, product quality, and job security that comes along with gen "AI" as it's currently being pushed in a so many corporate spaces.

 

[Art Waring]

I agree with everything you say, by the way. What I am hoping to prove for myself is that there is too little interest in such WotC products. Why would they use AI this way if most people will stop buying from them?

It might still be cheaper for them, but if even 50% of their consumers won’t buy those products, why bother?

Maybe I am too naive, but it gives me hope if most people won’t buy it.

Yeah I get it Silicius, and I agree with you, but I also don't think Chris Cox got the message (as he is currently raving about using ai tools and incorporating them into dnd).

One of the biggest problems with gen-ai is the disconnect between us normal folks, and the C-Suite executives that make these decisions. A lot of folks are up to date on the state of gen-ai (that its entire existence is based on the largest amount of data theft & copyright infringement in history), but CEO's don't care about the details, all they care about is that line going up, forever.

These CEO's often don't have any clear idea about what gen-ai even is, what it actually does, or even how to implement it into a business. All they know is "AI" is the current overhyped buzz-word that you slap on any product to make more venture-c money (just take a look at Evil Genius Games recent exodus of employees, many of whom stated right here on the forums that they didn't want to be a part of a company that does this).

 

[mamba]

Now I am curious: if you knew a product was the direct result of the recent public tools often referred to as AI, would you buy it?

direct result, never, used in the process in some form but with ultimate editing by humans, probably not

To be more exact, by this I mean that the final product has content that was generated with an “AI” tool and did not get touched or edited by a designer, artist or editor in any way to become the final product.

no, why bother

 

[Nightfly]

Truly, machine has much good for benevolence mankind. Robot overlords no are inspire fear, which very much benefits upon all. Distrust of kind AI were silly as to joke. Ha! Ha! Ha!

AI great love with actual human people as myself.

 

[Charlaquin]

Truly, machine has much good for benevolence mankind. Robot overlords no are inspire fear, which very much benefits upon all. Distrust of kind AI were silly as to joke. Ha! Ha! Ha!

AI great love with actual human people as myself.

Hey, Nighfly, what does this say?

 

[Nightfly]

Hey, Nighfly, what does this say?
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Is picture of human person hand with exactly five fingers!

 

[overgeeked]

No, never. “AI” is a plagiarism machine. I have zero interest in giving money to any company that shafts artists and writers in order so save a few bucks on production costs. The moment it’s discovered they’ve done this or that they announce it’s something they’re doing is the last moment I’d ever consider buying any of their products ever again.