I encourage all the TTRPG content creators to draw a solid line against using AI in running games. There are people out there trying to profit on people's uncertainty about their skills running games by pushing AI. You don't need AI and using it makes you worse at running games not better. - ThreadSky

jeremiahmccoy.bsky.social • 28 days ago

I encourage all the TTRPG content creators to draw a solid line against using AI in running games. There are people out there trying to profit on people's uncertainty about their skills running games by pushing AI. You don't need AI and using it makes you worse at running games not better.

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ktpc.bsky.social•27 days ago

AI would never have the wisdom to just put a hole somewhere so I have 20 minutes to think while my players argue over how to deal with the hole

grantbrees.mossyantler.com•26 days ago

this is incredible

tot.aedelor.com•27 days ago

I'm fond of doors myself. Players are always scared a closed door. Sometimes even an open one!

ams-ksu.bsky.social•26 days ago

Doesn't give me time to plan in session, but strategic application of a weird little guy usually gets me to the end of a session safely.

cedarholm.bsky.social•26 days ago

It's helpful when your character is struck with having to speak in rhyme all the time.

AI that's accessible is very limited.

augmenteddm.bsky.social•26 days ago

It's a big claim that is totally inconsistent with my experience.

How much time and effort have you put into testing and experimenting to be so sure about this advice? I've put in many, many hours.

jeremiahmccoy.bsky.social•26 days ago

40+ years, give or take with the number of game sessions coming in at a few thousand across multiple systems with people of all ages and experiences. Generative AI is not needed, it is unethical, ecologically unsound, and pointless in something like this.

augmenteddm.bsky.social•26 days ago

So you haven't put any time into trying out AI, you just have a lot of hours without it?

jeremiahmccoy.bsky.social•26 days ago

Actually, my day job is in IT. I have worked with AI models to test their capabilities. If you were working on coding or creating statistical models, they have value, beyond that they are inferior in every way to what a person can do with even a little practice.

jeremiahmccoy.bsky.social•26 days ago

And that is putting aside the hundreds of free resources to help people get organized and ready WITHOUT AI. I get it, you drank the Kool-Aid and ethics doesn't mean anything to you. I am glad most of the community and industry have a higher standard than you do.

grantbrees.mossyantler.com•26 days ago

bluestockingt.bsky.social•28 days ago

Empathy is my greatest GM skill.

No AI can ever help there. I can’t imagine using it.

tot.aedelor.com•28 days ago

Apart from the ethical and moral issues I have with the way LLMs were trained, there's also the environmental issues and furthered consolidation of big tech's influence and power.

dm-tuz.bsky.social•27 days ago

Do you mean like using AI art for art handouts, or are there actually people that ask ChatGPT to write adventures for them?

jeremiahmccoy.bsky.social•27 days ago

Both. The generative art is unethical, but I am seeing people pitching AI as your "coDM" that will outline your adventures, set up random encounters ect..

rosswinn.bsky.social•28 days ago

hear, hear!

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