Not really convinced it is true AI. I think it is really more like a collection of MAD LIBS.
I was building a dungeon and asked for content 3 different times on different days. Two of them were identical and one of them was very similar but had the names changed.
It's not intelligent in any sense. Calling it AI was just a marketing gimmick to make the program sound more impressive than it actually is- it's just word association software that recognizes that word A is often followed by word B and strings collections of words together based on that. It doesn't understand what any of those words actually mean.
Yeah, it’s essentially a gussied-up predictive text algorithm.
Not really convinced it is true AI. I think it is really more like a collection of MAD LIBS.
I was building a dungeon and asked for content 3 different times on different days. Two of them were identical and one of them was very similar but had the names changed.
It's not intelligent in any sense. Calling it AI was just a marketing gimmick to make the program sound more impressive than it actually is- it's just word association software that recognizes that word A is often followed by word B and strings collections of words together based on that. It doesn't understand what any of those words actually mean.
Yeah, it’s essentially a gussied-up predictive text algorithm
I think it is more than a gussied up predictive text algorithm, It feels more like a way to get people to "chat" with it so it's owners can learn how to implement social engineering in more subtle ways. They are past data collection, which is what social media is all about, now they are learning how people want to be manipulated in the most efficient ways.
That said it is DEFINITELY not AI, but they will sell it as AI. The real question is who is gonna teach it?
If the 5E Dungeon Master's Guide (and 5E in general) had actually had any work put into it, we wouldn't need tools like this.
How hard is it for humans to make charts and put them close together in a book?
For almost 50 years it hasn't been that difficult for people that understand the game, sadly the current push is to turn D&D into a video game at the expense of what D&D is about, imagination, dice and a table.
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CENSORSHIP IS THE TOOL OF COWARDS and WANNA BE TYRANTS.
Not really convinced it is true AI. I think it is really more like a collection of MAD LIBS.
I was building a dungeon and asked for content 3 different times on different days. Two of them were identical and one of them was very similar but had the names changed.
It's not intelligent in any sense. Calling it AI was just a marketing gimmick to make the program sound more impressive than it actually is- it's just word association software that recognizes that word A is often followed by word B and strings collections of words together based on that. It doesn't understand what any of those words actually mean.
Yeah, it’s essentially a gussied-up predictive text algorithm.
I think it is more than a gussied up predictive text algorithm, It feels more like a way to get people to "chat" with it so it's owners can learn how to implement social engineering in more subtle ways. They are past data collection, which is what social media is all about, now they are learning how people want to be manipulated in the most efficient ways.
That said it is DEFINITELY not AI, but they will sell it as AI. The real question is who is gonna teach it?
Certainly! Here's a D&D quest based on the thematic statement you provided:
Quest Title: The Midnight Menace
Quest Summary: The town of Larkspur is plagued by a rising darkness as the ghouls awaken from their slumber, their insatiable hunger threatening the innocent. The heroes are summoned to protect the town and uncover the source of this malevolent resurgence. With the lives of virtuous victims hanging in the balance, the heroes must embark on a perilous journey to confront the ghoul horde, unmask their hidden leader, and restore peace to Larkspur.
Quest Objectives:
Investigate the reports of ghoul sightings and attacks in the nearby woods.
Seek out the wisdom of an ancient sage who possesses knowledge about the ghouls' origins and vulnerabilities.
Unearth a long-lost artifact that holds the key to weakening the ghoul horde.
Infiltrate the ghouls' lair, deep within an abandoned crypt, and confront their leader.
Engage in a desperate battle against the ghoul horde and their leader, ensuring the safety of the virtuous victims.
Purify the town of Larkspur from the remnants of darkness and help rebuild it anew.
Quest Rewards:
Experience and growth for the heroes as they overcome formidable challenges.
Gratitude and admiration from the townsfolk of Larkspur, who will view the heroes as saviors.
A treasure trove of ancient relics and valuable items recovered from the ghouls' lair.
The lasting legacy of having vanquished a significant evil and restored peace to a troubled town.
Remember, as the Dungeon Master, you can customize and expand upon this quest to suit your campaign and players' preferences. Enjoy the adventure!
I'm at a loss to see what's in there that a human brain couldn't come up with themselves in about five minutes, tops
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Certainly! Here's a D&D quest based on the thematic statement you provided:
Quest Title: The Midnight Menace
Quest Summary: The town of Larkspur is plagued by a rising darkness as the ghouls awaken from their slumber, their insatiable hunger threatening the innocent. The heroes are summoned to protect the town and uncover the source of this malevolent resurgence. With the lives of virtuous victims hanging in the balance, the heroes must embark on a perilous journey to confront the ghoul horde, unmask their hidden leader, and restore peace to Larkspur.
Quest Objectives:
Investigate the reports of ghoul sightings and attacks in the nearby woods.
Seek out the wisdom of an ancient sage who possesses knowledge about the ghouls' origins and vulnerabilities.
Unearth a long-lost artifact that holds the key to weakening the ghoul horde.
Infiltrate the ghouls' lair, deep within an abandoned crypt, and confront their leader.
Engage in a desperate battle against the ghoul horde and their leader, ensuring the safety of the virtuous victims.
Purify the town of Larkspur from the remnants of darkness and help rebuild it anew.
Quest Rewards:
Experience and growth for the heroes as they overcome formidable challenges.
Gratitude and admiration from the townsfolk of Larkspur, who will view the heroes as saviors.
A treasure trove of ancient relics and valuable items recovered from the ghouls' lair.
The lasting legacy of having vanquished a significant evil and restored peace to a troubled town.
Remember, as the Dungeon Master, you can customize and expand upon this quest to suit your campaign and players' preferences. Enjoy the adventure!
I'm at a loss to see what's in there that a human brain couldn't come up with themselves in about five minutes, tops
Certainly! Here's a D&D quest based on the thematic statement you provided:
Quest Title: The Midnight Menace
Quest Summary: The town of Larkspur is plagued by a rising darkness as the ghouls awaken from their slumber, their insatiable hunger threatening the innocent. The heroes are summoned to protect the town and uncover the source of this malevolent resurgence. With the lives of virtuous victims hanging in the balance, the heroes must embark on a perilous journey to confront the ghoul horde, unmask their hidden leader, and restore peace to Larkspur.
Quest Objectives:
Investigate the reports of ghoul sightings and attacks in the nearby woods.
Seek out the wisdom of an ancient sage who possesses knowledge about the ghouls' origins and vulnerabilities.
Unearth a long-lost artifact that holds the key to weakening the ghoul horde.
Infiltrate the ghouls' lair, deep within an abandoned crypt, and confront their leader.
Engage in a desperate battle against the ghoul horde and their leader, ensuring the safety of the virtuous victims.
Purify the town of Larkspur from the remnants of darkness and help rebuild it anew.
Quest Rewards:
Experience and growth for the heroes as they overcome formidable challenges.
Gratitude and admiration from the townsfolk of Larkspur, who will view the heroes as saviors.
A treasure trove of ancient relics and valuable items recovered from the ghouls' lair.
The lasting legacy of having vanquished a significant evil and restored peace to a troubled town.
Remember, as the Dungeon Master, you can customize and expand upon this quest to suit your campaign and players' preferences. Enjoy the adventure!
I'm at a loss to see what's in there that a human brain couldn't come up with themselves in about five minutes, tops
You need to meet more people.
You should be right.
But you need to meet more people.
Everything there is stuff that people did come up with. The bot is just copying things that it saw online.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Certainly! Here's a D&D quest based on the thematic statement you provided:
Quest Title: The Midnight Menace
Quest Summary: The town of Larkspur is plagued by a rising darkness as the ghouls awaken from their slumber, their insatiable hunger threatening the innocent. The heroes are summoned to protect the town and uncover the source of this malevolent resurgence. With the lives of virtuous victims hanging in the balance, the heroes must embark on a perilous journey to confront the ghoul horde, unmask their hidden leader, and restore peace to Larkspur.
Quest Objectives:
Investigate the reports of ghoul sightings and attacks in the nearby woods.
Seek out the wisdom of an ancient sage who possesses knowledge about the ghouls' origins and vulnerabilities.
Unearth a long-lost artifact that holds the key to weakening the ghoul horde.
Infiltrate the ghouls' lair, deep within an abandoned crypt, and confront their leader.
Engage in a desperate battle against the ghoul horde and their leader, ensuring the safety of the virtuous victims.
Purify the town of Larkspur from the remnants of darkness and help rebuild it anew.
Quest Rewards:
Experience and growth for the heroes as they overcome formidable challenges.
Gratitude and admiration from the townsfolk of Larkspur, who will view the heroes as saviors.
A treasure trove of ancient relics and valuable items recovered from the ghouls' lair.
The lasting legacy of having vanquished a significant evil and restored peace to a troubled town.
Remember, as the Dungeon Master, you can customize and expand upon this quest to suit your campaign and players' preferences. Enjoy the adventure!
I'm at a loss to see what's in there that a human brain couldn't come up with themselves in about five minutes, tops
You need to meet more people.
You should be right.
But you need to meet more people.
Everything there is stuff that people did come up with. The bot is just copying things that it saw online.
You and I both know there are plenty of people who couldn’t come up with that.
definitely an illuminati tool - if you ask chatGpt to summarise Triangle, Square, Circle and X (repeatedly and in the correct order) it unlocks your illuminati membership+free badge (triangular).
It's not true AI at all, but it's a step and we're the ones teaching it language skills, same way you'd teach a baby - look at the proliferation of (mixed quality) "art" AI-interfaces that we're all punching language skills into.
Imagine some caveman arguing against this "new fire thing" that might have burned them once.
Imagine renewing your car insurance and not being on hold for... (frustrating amount of minutes) - I genuinely DO NOT care if those jobs are wiped off the face of the earth. ...and if you want to talk about "social engineering" imagine a whole bunch of poor people all of a sudden having time on their hands... That's the stuff revolutions are made of...
These things do "scrape" google for their info - and I'm good with that, we're long past that genie out the bottle. If it saves me 5-10 minutes of my precious time, I'm even better with that. Yeah, "X" might only be something I could have done in 5 minutes, but it's also 5 undisturbed minutes or being in the right head space, or - who are you to say what I or anyone else does with their time? We're D&D people, playing the pretend-imagination game + rule #1
And that's not relevant because the chatbot didn't actually come up with it either, it just copied the people who did.
It does not copy from the internet, but of course, it does learn from other peoples stuff. I asked it and this was the conversation.
(Me) Do you just copy campaigns off the internet?
(ChatGPT)
No, I don't directly copy campaigns off the internet. As an AI, I don't have direct access to the internet during our conversation. My responses are generated based on a mixture of licensed data, data created by human trainers, and publicly available data. I have been trained on a wide variety of texts, including books, articles, websites, and other written materials, to provide helpful and informative responses.
When I provide information about D&D campaigns, I rely on my training data, which includes published D&D rulebooks, adventure modules, and other resources. I can draw upon the knowledge and patterns I've learned to generate ideas, offer suggestions, and provide guidance for creating your own unique campaigns. However, the specific content and details of the campaigns I suggest are not directly copied from any single source.
It's important to note that while I strive to provide accurate and up-to-date information, there may be limitations or gaps in my knowledge, especially if the information is beyond my September 2021 knowledge cutoff. Therefore, it's always a good idea to double-check and cross-reference the information I provide with official D&D materials and trusted sources.
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Fighter: We need to get out of here! The Goblins are overwhelming us!
Wizard: Time to use that sketchy item the DM never stops grinning about *rolls a nat one*
Barbarian(in rage as usual): Aw Hellllllll Naw . . .
Certainly! Here's a D&D quest based on the thematic statement you provided:
Quest Title: The Midnight Menace
Quest Summary: The town of Larkspur is plagued by a rising darkness as the ghouls awaken from their slumber, their insatiable hunger threatening the innocent. The heroes are summoned to protect the town and uncover the source of this malevolent resurgence. With the lives of virtuous victims hanging in the balance, the heroes must embark on a perilous journey to confront the ghoul horde, unmask their hidden leader, and restore peace to Larkspur.
Quest Objectives:
Investigate the reports of ghoul sightings and attacks in the nearby woods.
Seek out the wisdom of an ancient sage who possesses knowledge about the ghouls' origins and vulnerabilities.
Unearth a long-lost artifact that holds the key to weakening the ghoul horde.
Infiltrate the ghouls' lair, deep within an abandoned crypt, and confront their leader.
Engage in a desperate battle against the ghoul horde and their leader, ensuring the safety of the virtuous victims.
Purify the town of Larkspur from the remnants of darkness and help rebuild it anew.
Quest Rewards:
Experience and growth for the heroes as they overcome formidable challenges.
Gratitude and admiration from the townsfolk of Larkspur, who will view the heroes as saviors.
A treasure trove of ancient relics and valuable items recovered from the ghouls' lair.
The lasting legacy of having vanquished a significant evil and restored peace to a troubled town.
Remember, as the Dungeon Master, you can customize and expand upon this quest to suit your campaign and players' preferences. Enjoy the adventure!
I'm at a loss to see what's in there that a human brain couldn't come up with themselves in about five minutes, tops
You need to meet more people.
You should be right.
But you need to meet more people.
Everything there is stuff that people did come up with. The bot is just copying things that it saw online.
You and I both know there are plenty of people who couldn’t come up with that.
I didn't say which human brain
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Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock) Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric) Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue) Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
Where do you supposed that "publicly available data" was? No, it's not doing a web search in response to your question, but its word association database was built using sources that included discussions about D&D character optimization on public message forums and social media. It is mimicking the words that people wrote, it does not actually understand the rules of the game at all: it's not even capable of reading the rulebooks, much less drawing conclusions based on them.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
And that's not relevant because the chatbot didn't actually come up with it either, it just copied the people who did.
It does not copy from the internet, but of course, it does learn from other peoples stuff. I asked it and this was the conversation.
(Me) Do you just copy campaigns off the internet?
(ChatGPT)
No, I don't directly copy campaigns off the internet. As an AI, I don't have direct access to the internet during our conversation. My responses are generated based on a mixture of licensed data, data created by human trainers, and publicly available data. I have been trained on a wide variety of texts, including books, articles, websites, and other written materials, to provide helpful and informative responses.
One thing that everyone who uses ChatGPT should be aware of: it is programmed to lie instead of say "I don't know." It will make answers up out of complete nonsense. Just this morning there was a news report that a professor at Texas A&M had gotten in trouble for failing his entire class for plagiarism because he'd loaded all their final papers into ChatGPT and asked it if it had written them. It said yes every time, which he accepted in spite of students who had the proof that they did not use it or any similar programs to cheat on their reports. One of them took the professor's final paper from when he was a student and asked ChatGPT if it had written it: it said yes.
ChapGPT is a fun toy to play around with, but don't assume that everything it tells you is true.
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Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
And that's not relevant because the chatbot didn't actually come up with it either, it just copied the people who did.
It does not copy from the internet, but of course, it does learn from other peoples stuff. I asked it and this was the conversation.
(Me) Do you just copy campaigns off the internet?
(ChatGPT)
No, I don't directly copy campaigns off the internet. As an AI, I don't have direct access to the internet during our conversation. My responses are generated based on a mixture of licensed data, data created by human trainers, and publicly available data. I have been trained on a wide variety of texts, including books, articles, websites, and other written materials, to provide helpful and informative responses.
One thing that everyone who uses ChatGPT should be aware of: it is programmed to lie instead of say "I don't know." It will make answers up out of complete nonsense. Just this morning there was a news report that a professor at Texas A&M had gotten in trouble for failing his entire class for plagiarism because he'd loaded all their final papers into ChatGPT and asked it if it had written them. It said yes every time, which he accepted in spite of students who had the proof that they did not use it or any similar programs to cheat on their reports. One of them took the professor's final paper from when he was a student and asked ChatGPT if it had written it: it said yes.
ChapGPT is a fun toy to play around with, but don't assume that everything it tells you is true.
Not everything it tells you is true, but it does not simply copy stuff from its training data. It sees the patterns in the adventures, and goes based on that, example, It might see that in many quests artifacts are needed to be found, so it adds artifacts, it also might see that a event needs to happen to destroy the world, so it looks at D&D material and at stories and what not, and makes something based on that. It does not just copy. If it just copied and changed names, then you could simply put the adventure it gave you into the internet, and at sometime their would be a result, but there never is. Its campaigns are unique, and I believe it is a very good tool for D&D.
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Fighter: We need to get out of here! The Goblins are overwhelming us!
Wizard: Time to use that sketchy item the DM never stops grinning about *rolls a nat one*
Barbarian(in rage as usual): Aw Hellllllll Naw . . .
ChatGPT is a useful tool. However, it is necessary for a human to interpret the results it offers, and to ask it with judgment. In the case at hand, which is whether it is useful for D&D, the answer is yes. But just because it's useful doesn't mean it's essential, or that it's going to write a campaign on its own. It can give you ideas regarding plots, specific events, quests, magic items, NPCs, etc... But you will always have to do your part. Accept the useful. Reject what does not work. And modify what you have to modify.
In short, it is a tool and you have to understand its virtues and its defects, and use it accordingly. And like any tool, the better you know how to use it, the better results you will get.
ChatGPT is a useful tool. However, it is necessary for a human to interpret the results it offers, and to ask it with judgment. In the case at hand, which is whether it is useful for D&D, the answer is yes. But just because it's useful doesn't mean it's essential, or that it's going to write a campaign on its own. It can give you ideas regarding plots, specific events, quests, magic items, NPCs, etc... But you will always have to do your part. Accept the useful. Reject what does not work. And modify what you have to modify.
In short, it is a tool and you have to understand its virtues and its defects, and use it accordingly. And like any tool, the better you know how to use it, the better results you will get.
I agree. This is how people should think of it.
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Fighter: We need to get out of here! The Goblins are overwhelming us!
Wizard: Time to use that sketchy item the DM never stops grinning about *rolls a nat one*
Barbarian(in rage as usual): Aw Hellllllll Naw . . .
Looks fairly standard - certainly for the use(s) being discussed here, I don't think any of us will be getting litigous letters from Microsoft threatening a need for recompense because we made a village of Orcs and they own the rights to Chief Gronks' likeness. ...or is there something in there that does equate to anything similar for the uses being discussed here?
It only matters if you care or potentially if you want to generate income from it - in which case, that's where any time you've saved gets alloted to "imagination time".
Yeah, it’s essentially a gussied-up predictive text algorithm.
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I think it is more than a gussied up predictive text algorithm, It feels more like a way to get people to "chat" with it so it's owners can learn how to implement social engineering in more subtle ways. They are past data collection, which is what social media is all about, now they are learning how people want to be manipulated in the most efficient ways.
That said it is DEFINITELY not AI, but they will sell it as AI. The real question is who is gonna teach it?
CENSORSHIP IS THE TOOL OF COWARDS and WANNA BE TYRANTS.
For almost 50 years it hasn't been that difficult for people that understand the game, sadly the current push is to turn D&D into a video game at the expense of what D&D is about, imagination, dice and a table.
CENSORSHIP IS THE TOOL OF COWARDS and WANNA BE TYRANTS.
That’s what I meant by “gussied up.”
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I'm at a loss to see what's in there that a human brain couldn't come up with themselves in about five minutes, tops
Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock)
Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric)
Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
You need to meet more people.
You should be right.
But you need to meet more people.
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Everything there is stuff that people did come up with. The bot is just copying things that it saw online.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
You and I both know there are plenty of people who couldn’t come up with that.
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And that's not relevant because the chatbot didn't actually come up with it either, it just copied the people who did.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Some notes:
https://wulfgold.substack.com
Blog - nerd stuff
https://deepdreamgenerator.com/u/wulfgold
A.I. art - also nerd stuff - a gallery of NPC portraits - help yourself.
It does not copy from the internet, but of course, it does learn from other peoples stuff. I asked it and this was the conversation.
No, I don't directly copy campaigns off the internet. As an AI, I don't have direct access to the internet during our conversation. My responses are generated based on a mixture of licensed data, data created by human trainers, and publicly available data. I have been trained on a wide variety of texts, including books, articles, websites, and other written materials, to provide helpful and informative responses.
When I provide information about D&D campaigns, I rely on my training data, which includes published D&D rulebooks, adventure modules, and other resources. I can draw upon the knowledge and patterns I've learned to generate ideas, offer suggestions, and provide guidance for creating your own unique campaigns. However, the specific content and details of the campaigns I suggest are not directly copied from any single source.
It's important to note that while I strive to provide accurate and up-to-date information, there may be limitations or gaps in my knowledge, especially if the information is beyond my September 2021 knowledge cutoff. Therefore, it's always a good idea to double-check and cross-reference the information I provide with official D&D materials and trusted sources.
Fighter: We need to get out of here! The Goblins are overwhelming us!
Wizard: Time to use that sketchy item the DM never stops grinning about *rolls a nat one*
Barbarian(in rage as usual): Aw Hellllllll Naw . . .
I didn't say which human brain
Active characters:
Carric Aquissar, elven wannabe artist in his deconstructionist period (Archfey warlock)
Lan Kidogo, mapach archaeologist and treasure hunter (Knowledge cleric)
Mardan Ferres, elven private investigator obsessed with that one unsolved murder (Assassin rogue)
Xhekhetiel, halfling survivor of a Betrayer Gods cult (Runechild sorcerer/fighter)
Where do you supposed that "publicly available data" was? No, it's not doing a web search in response to your question, but its word association database was built using sources that included discussions about D&D character optimization on public message forums and social media. It is mimicking the words that people wrote, it does not actually understand the rules of the game at all: it's not even capable of reading the rulebooks, much less drawing conclusions based on them.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
One thing that everyone who uses ChatGPT should be aware of: it is programmed to lie instead of say "I don't know." It will make answers up out of complete nonsense. Just this morning there was a news report that a professor at Texas A&M had gotten in trouble for failing his entire class for plagiarism because he'd loaded all their final papers into ChatGPT and asked it if it had written them. It said yes every time, which he accepted in spite of students who had the proof that they did not use it or any similar programs to cheat on their reports. One of them took the professor's final paper from when he was a student and asked ChatGPT if it had written it: it said yes.
ChapGPT is a fun toy to play around with, but don't assume that everything it tells you is true.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Not everything it tells you is true, but it does not simply copy stuff from its training data. It sees the patterns in the adventures, and goes based on that, example, It might see that in many quests artifacts are needed to be found, so it adds artifacts, it also might see that a event needs to happen to destroy the world, so it looks at D&D material and at stories and what not, and makes something based on that. It does not just copy. If it just copied and changed names, then you could simply put the adventure it gave you into the internet, and at sometime their would be a result, but there never is. Its campaigns are unique, and I believe it is a very good tool for D&D.
Fighter: We need to get out of here! The Goblins are overwhelming us!
Wizard: Time to use that sketchy item the DM never stops grinning about *rolls a nat one*
Barbarian(in rage as usual): Aw Hellllllll Naw . . .
ChatGPT is a useful tool. However, it is necessary for a human to interpret the results it offers, and to ask it with judgment. In the case at hand, which is whether it is useful for D&D, the answer is yes. But just because it's useful doesn't mean it's essential, or that it's going to write a campaign on its own. It can give you ideas regarding plots, specific events, quests, magic items, NPCs, etc... But you will always have to do your part. Accept the useful. Reject what does not work. And modify what you have to modify.
In short, it is a tool and you have to understand its virtues and its defects, and use it accordingly. And like any tool, the better you know how to use it, the better results you will get.
I agree. This is how people should think of it.
Fighter: We need to get out of here! The Goblins are overwhelming us!
Wizard: Time to use that sketchy item the DM never stops grinning about *rolls a nat one*
Barbarian(in rage as usual): Aw Hellllllll Naw . . .
Just read the chatgpt TOS. If you still want to use it have at it.
CENSORSHIP IS THE TOOL OF COWARDS and WANNA BE TYRANTS.
Looks fairly standard - certainly for the use(s) being discussed here, I don't think any of us will be getting litigous letters from Microsoft threatening a need for recompense because we made a village of Orcs and they own the rights to Chief Gronks' likeness. ...or is there something in there that does equate to anything similar for the uses being discussed here?
It only matters if you care or potentially if you want to generate income from it - in which case, that's where any time you've saved gets alloted to "imagination time".
https://wulfgold.substack.com
Blog - nerd stuff
https://deepdreamgenerator.com/u/wulfgold
A.I. art - also nerd stuff - a gallery of NPC portraits - help yourself.
Then use away.
CENSORSHIP IS THE TOOL OF COWARDS and WANNA BE TYRANTS.