D&D doesn't have to just be one thing. There's room for traditional sitting around the table in a basement or at a convention, there's room for VTTs, there's room for solo modules that don't need a DM at all - and yes, there's room to experiment with what AI can do for this hobby, up to and including functioning as the DM for a group that doesn't have one.
Hey! Why do the table games have to be in basements and at conventions? I have yet to play in either.
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Since WotC has used "AI" in products, it is an easy argument that it could have played a role in the layoffs, but a new thread may be a good idea.
As I recall it, WotC was duped by an artist who used AI in their work. Not that WotC used it directly. Which is a huge distinction. Unless you’re talking about something other that that art in Bigby’s
Since WotC has used "AI" in products, it is an easy argument that it could have played a role in the layoffs, but a new thread may be a good idea.
As I recall it, WotC was duped by an artist who used AI in their work. Not that WotC used it directly. Which is a huge distinction. Unless you’re talking about something other that that art in Bigby’s
I understand many will not feel the way I do, but they published it so they own it. Even if you do give them a pass, how is reducing staff going to help with preventing this in new books? Did WotC only fire the people that allowed that to happen?
Since WotC has used "AI" in products, it is an easy argument that it could have played a role in the layoffs, but a new thread may be a good idea.
As I recall it, WotC was duped by an artist who used AI in their work. Not that WotC used it directly. Which is a huge distinction. Unless you’re talking about something other that that art in Bigby’s
I understand many will not feel the way I do, but they published it so they own it. Even if you do give them a pass, how is reducing staff going to help with preventing this in new books?
Makes communication with and oversight of artists easier. And the distinction between deliberately green-lighting AI art and inadvertently accepting a few pieces followed by a public statement of apology when they were made aware is very relevant to describing and analyzing their policies.
I understand many will not feel the way I do, but they published it so they own it. Even if you do give them a pass, how is reducing staff going to help with preventing this in new books? Did WotC only fire the people that allowed that to happen?
I doubt AI art (whether preventing it or otherwise) was a concern of theirs with these layoffs. It's a non sequitur at best.
Since WotC has used "AI" in products, it is an easy argument that it could have played a role in the layoffs, but a new thread may be a good idea.
As I recall it, WotC was duped by an artist who used AI in their work. Not that WotC used it directly. Which is a huge distinction. Unless you’re talking about something other that that art in Bigby’s
I understand many will not feel the way I do, but they published it so they own it. Even if you do give them a pass, how is reducing staff going to help with preventing this in new books?
Makes communication with and oversight of artists easier. And the distinction between deliberately green-lighting AI art and inadvertently accepting a few pieces followed by a public statement of apology when they were made aware is very relevant to describing and analyzing their policies.
We do not know how deliberate it was or wasn't (and likely never will), but we do know that it to happened on their watch. I see it as they(upper management) are the captain of the ship, and when that ship is runs aground they are still responsible even if they were asleep in their quarters. Regardless if 50 other people made mistakes that lead to the grounding while the captain was asleep. Couple that with all of the other "groundings" the SS WotC has had over the last 18 months, and I am not having the deck hand, that somehow made it to the bridge and spun the wheel, walk the plank. Their ship their crew, their responsibility, their court-martial.
Some see it as an honest mistake, others as a pattern of mistakes that continue.
Technically speaking, they don't own it. Since AI is currently still legally not something that can be copyrighted, since it has only happened a single time (once), and the most recent accusation of such came from youtube people who have a hate on for WotC and *were categorically wrong* (but the mill spread the fake news of the trased PHB cover being AI generated and so they had to release an update), since they replaced the image in published content with one from an artist that did not use AI in creating their work (and they use external artists, not in house), saying they own it is likely meant to mean that they did it, so tough.
One time, and they weren't aware of the outside artist who created the piece using AI to help their work speed.
Thankfully, the folks who started the most recent little flare up have apologized, and one of them even noted that it happened because he was biased about Wotc (negatively). I mean, yeah, I'd apologize too, given he could be sued over it, but the issue isn't that he apologized or that he's at risk.
But he did it with a goal of making WotC look bad. And succeeded -- and no apology is going to be enough to make that go away.
If only this were as simple as "you kill one goblin, and suddenly you are a goblin killer for life!"
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They own their actions, and this is hardly the first goblin they have killed. I agree if you look at any of the fumbles of the last 18 months individually an argument could be made that it isn't anything huge, but taken together it points to poor management.
D&D doesn't have to just be one thing. There's room for traditional sitting around the table in a basement or at a convention, there's room for VTTs, there's room for solo modules that don't need a DM at all - and yes, there's room to experiment with what AI can do for this hobby, up to and including functioning as the DM for a group that doesn't have one.
Hey! Why do the table games have to be in basements and at conventions? I have yet to play in either.
**this is meant as a lighthearted jab in good fun**
Because that is where my ideal game room is set up :P
They own their actions, and this is hardly the first goblin they have killed. I agree if you look at any of the fumbles of the last 18 months individually an argument could be made that it isn't anything huge, but taken together it points to poor management.
I don't think you'll find many people here disagreeing with the idea that WotC and especially Hasbro have poor management (and/or PR.) But extrapolating from those missteps to prognosticating about things like the inevitability of a deluge of AI art and cramming lootboxes into their VTT reality be damned is where you lose people.
They own their actions, and this is hardly the first goblin they have killed. I agree if you look at any of the fumbles of the last 18 months individually an argument could be made that it isn't anything huge, but taken together it points to poor management.
Poor management has been a hallmark of D&D since 1974. This is quite literally the whole existence of the game, lol. It fits the requirement for "goes without saying".
I can look back on the fumbles over the last 40 years -- the last year and a half is nothing...
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Sure, but in the long run we're all dead, yeah? The current iteration of Chat-GPT cost over $100 million to train and has a trillion parameters floating around, and it isn't even close to viable as a DM. The cost to train something that could be viable as a DM in terms of cash and computational power would be potentially orders of magnitude more.
Yeah, why should we bother planting trees or doing reseach? It's not like we'll live to see the results. And it's not like a hobby can last for decades or anything, let's all only care about the short term!
Are you arguing with me or a straw man? My point is that GPT-4 is monstrously expensive in monetary terms and in computational terms, and that in the near future we're not likely to see the kind of advances that make it less computationally intensive, or more feasible to use for, frankly, as petty a purpose as AI DMing. I'm in no way arguing for short-termism.
P.S. I've noticed that you seem to be a bit belligerent and employ a lot of sarcasm in your responses. Would you kindly tone it down?
Are you arguing with me or a straw man? My point is that GPT-4 is monstrously expensive in monetary terms and in computational terms, and that in the near future we're not likely to see the kind of advances that make it less computationally intensive, or more feasible to use for, frankly, as petty a purpose as AI DMing. I'm in no way arguing for short-termism.
"In the long run we're all dead" reads like a short-termism stance to me, and a dismissive one to boot. Like attracts like.
Are you arguing with me or a straw man? My point is that GPT-4 is monstrously expensive in monetary terms and in computational terms, and that in the near future we're not likely to see the kind of advances that make it less computationally intensive, or more feasible to use for, frankly, as petty a purpose as AI DMing. I'm in no way arguing for short-termism.
"In the long run we're all dead" reads like a short-termism stance to me, and a dismissive one to boot. Like attracts like.
It's a well-known quote by a famous economist. In no way is it dismissive or sarcastic.
Sure, but in the long run we're all dead, yeah? The current iteration of Chat-GPT cost over $100 million to train and has a trillion parameters floating around, and it isn't even close to viable as a DM. The cost to train something that could be viable as a DM in terms of cash and computational power would be potentially orders of magnitude more.
Yeah, why should we bother planting trees or doing reseach? It's not like we'll live to see the results. And it's not like a hobby can last for decades or anything, let's all only care about the short term!
Are you arguing with me or a straw man? My point is that GPT-4 is monstrously expensive in monetary terms and in computational terms, and that in the near future we're not likely to see the kind of advances that make it less computationally intensive, or more feasible to use for, frankly, as petty a purpose as AI DMing. I'm in no way arguing for short-termism.
P.S. I've noticed that you seem to be a bit belligerent and employ a lot of sarcasm in your responses. Would you kindly tone it down?
I hate AI. I will make that clear. Mankind has witnessed before the ramifications of runaway technology.
BUT, part of the thing about AI is the ever accelerating rate it increases in sophistication and scope. There is no doubt that within a year or two, probably less, AI DM's will exist. Will the first ones be any good? Compared to a human, of course not. But for those that have only experienced mediocre, at best, or even NO DM's, will be satisfied. And as AI gets more powerful, probably at a much faster rate than computer hardware did (yeah, I have lived through the 1st PC's to what we have today) exponentially grew. I am positive that wotc will incorporate that into whatever form of video game they want to morph D&D into.
Since WotC has used "AI" in products, it is an easy argument that it could have played a role in the layoffs, but a new thread may be a good idea.
As I recall it, WotC was duped by an artist who used AI in their work. Not that WotC used it directly. Which is a huge distinction. Unless you’re talking about something other that that art in Bigby’s
I understand many will not feel the way I do, but they published it so they own it. Even if you do give them a pass, how is reducing staff going to help with preventing this in new books? Did WotC only fire the people that allowed that to happen?
As far as preventing it. It’s important to remember that art is a revenue maker for them. They sell prints of the art pieces in their books, or at least license them and allow the artist to sell them. People won’t buy AI art, they can just “make” that themselves, and as aedorsay says, they can’t copyright it. At which point, they can’t really sell it. So WotC has a very clear motive to not have AI art in their books. Even people who might not trust WotC must surely trust the company wants to make money. But even still it’s all but impossible for staff to prevent it, or at least it will be. As it becomes higher and higher quality, it will be harder and harder to stop. At some point, they just need to trust the people they work with not to misrepresent themselves.
As a note, it is a bad faith argument to imply or assert, without tangible evidence, that WotC may have incorporated AI art intentionally when they have explicitly stated that they did not.
A good faith argumentaccepts the premise that they did it by without knowing, were shocked, and apologized for it, and then publicly reaffirmed their commitment to not using AI art.
This is important to note because a bad faith argument is neither reasoned nor logical. It also means that a conversation has "jumped the rails", so to speak, because people arer esorting to something they have made up.
There is another reason this matters: hasbro is a big company with much money (however great their debt is). Things like this have an impact on the amount of money they make. Things that are unprovable or untrue in a court of law means that those making such assertions or implying such things are gonna lose. Stating those things in a location that is the property of WotC is basically giving them evidence should they opt to (for whatever reason) take a dump on some nobody.
This is, as I noted earlier, part of the reason that the recent youtubers who started to say that recent art was AI made explicit apologies. They may not be a typical player in a forum, but the law doesn't make a distinction there.
Even if you hate the guts of everyone at WotC, saying things that you cannot prove to be true on the property of WotC (essentially akin to standing in their door and saying it, metaphorically) about WotC that are potentially detrimental to the well being of the company is an unwise action.
Getting back to the topic of Layoffs, it is fairly apparent that the layoffs were done because as a corporation, Hasbro -- and WotC in particular -- were "top heavy" in terms of middle managers and supervisory roles; there were people whose sole job was to supervise themselves. Along with such actions there is a consideration of salary costs and the benefits involved.
laying people off just before Christmas is a Dick Move no matter who does it; personally, I am of the general opinion that layoffs shouldn't be a thing, fckin deal, but that's an emotional reactive thought, not one balanced in reason and practical reality.
However, it happened. piss poor management of the D&D portfolio has been a thing forever -- no one has ever successfully run the company without either screwing up the thing internally or pissing off the fans and players of the game. It started long before Arneson. This is why when I first popped in I talked about them firing the folks who bought the company from the folks who fired the folks who created the game.
That folks would expect different is a shock. Did anyone recall why it was Hasbro bought Wizards? Does anyone recall the stuff said about how terrible it was that a bunch of folks who created a card game from their D&D game and palled around with the folks at that weird ass White Wolf company were the ones that bought the beloved game -- and then released a version called 3.0? 3.5 is looked back on with fondness today, but people did not like 3.5 at first.
Hell, people didn't like 2e at first -- and 2e saved the freaking company until the folks that took over the same year drove it back into the ground before selling it to Wizards.
monte Cook was supposed to be lead designer of 5e, but left over differences of opinion with the company (WotC or Hasbro). The list of stuff that pisses off fans is long, ugly, and this isn't even the first time that D&D has had folks laid off.
Not even the first time during the holiday season.
Pardon me if I take more than a few large grains of salt with the panic over AI art being used, distrust of the people who own the rights and make the game (when those same people are the ones beign laid off, wtf people?), some ludicrous idea of turning it into a video game (newsflash: most of the videogames are inspired by D&D's systems), or whatever the lastest "but you can't do that' is.
They can, they will, they do not have the same priorities as you think they do or should.
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As a note, it is a bad faith argument to imply or assert, without tangible evidence, that WotC may have incorporated AI art intentionally when they have explicitly stated that they did not.
A good faith argumentaccepts the premise that they did it by without knowing, were shocked, and apologized for it, and then publicly reaffirmed their commitment to not using AI art.
But was Wizards shocked by it? I think they were surprised, but I highly doubt it was shocking to see a company that hires countless artists have one that utilized AI?
Also. I don't recall them apologizing.. Merely explaining they didn't know of this and that generative AI in their books was disallowed in future.
And I think it's baseless and dumb to assume Wizards knew about this and is lying and was testing the waters and blah blah blah blah. But your version of events is false and people can make arguments in good faith that are baseless or without tangible evidence.
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Hey! Why do the table games have to be in basements and at conventions? I have yet to play in either.
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CENSORSHIP IS THE TOOL OF COWARDS and WANNA BE TYRANTS.
As I recall it, WotC was duped by an artist who used AI in their work. Not that WotC used it directly. Which is a huge distinction. Unless you’re talking about something other that that art in Bigby’s
I understand many will not feel the way I do, but they published it so they own it. Even if you do give them a pass, how is reducing staff going to help with preventing this in new books? Did WotC only fire the people that allowed that to happen?
CENSORSHIP IS THE TOOL OF COWARDS and WANNA BE TYRANTS.
Makes communication with and oversight of artists easier. And the distinction between deliberately green-lighting AI art and inadvertently accepting a few pieces followed by a public statement of apology when they were made aware is very relevant to describing and analyzing their policies.
I doubt AI art (whether preventing it or otherwise) was a concern of theirs with these layoffs. It's a non sequitur at best.
We do not know how deliberate it was or wasn't (and likely never will), but we do know that it to happened on their watch. I see it as they(upper management) are the captain of the ship, and when that ship is runs aground they are still responsible even if they were asleep in their quarters. Regardless if 50 other people made mistakes that lead to the grounding while the captain was asleep. Couple that with all of the other "groundings" the SS WotC has had over the last 18 months, and I am not having the deck hand, that somehow made it to the bridge and spun the wheel, walk the plank. Their ship their crew, their responsibility, their court-martial.
Some see it as an honest mistake, others as a pattern of mistakes that continue.
Accountability is part of being in charge.
CENSORSHIP IS THE TOOL OF COWARDS and WANNA BE TYRANTS.
Technically speaking, they don't own it. Since AI is currently still legally not something that can be copyrighted, since it has only happened a single time (once), and the most recent accusation of such came from youtube people who have a hate on for WotC and *were categorically wrong* (but the mill spread the fake news of the trased PHB cover being AI generated and so they had to release an update), since they replaced the image in published content with one from an artist that did not use AI in creating their work (and they use external artists, not in house), saying they own it is likely meant to mean that they did it, so tough.
One time, and they weren't aware of the outside artist who created the piece using AI to help their work speed.
Thankfully, the folks who started the most recent little flare up have apologized, and one of them even noted that it happened because he was biased about Wotc (negatively). I mean, yeah, I'd apologize too, given he could be sued over it, but the issue isn't that he apologized or that he's at risk.
But he did it with a goal of making WotC look bad. And succeeded -- and no apology is going to be enough to make that go away.
If only this were as simple as "you kill one goblin, and suddenly you are a goblin killer for life!"
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They own their actions, and this is hardly the first goblin they have killed. I agree if you look at any of the fumbles of the last 18 months individually an argument could be made that it isn't anything huge, but taken together it points to poor management.
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Because that is where my ideal game room is set up :P
I don't think you'll find many people here disagreeing with the idea that WotC and especially Hasbro have poor management (and/or PR.) But extrapolating from those missteps to prognosticating about things like the inevitability of a deluge of AI art and cramming lootboxes into their VTT reality be damned is where you lose people.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1642-updated-statement-on-ai
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HERE.Poor management has been a hallmark of D&D since 1974. This is quite literally the whole existence of the game, lol. It fits the requirement for "goes without saying".
I can look back on the fumbles over the last 40 years -- the last year and a half is nothing...
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Are you arguing with me or a straw man? My point is that GPT-4 is monstrously expensive in monetary terms and in computational terms, and that in the near future we're not likely to see the kind of advances that make it less computationally intensive, or more feasible to use for, frankly, as petty a purpose as AI DMing. I'm in no way arguing for short-termism.
P.S. I've noticed that you seem to be a bit belligerent and employ a lot of sarcasm in your responses. Would you kindly tone it down?
"In the long run we're all dead" reads like a short-termism stance to me, and a dismissive one to boot. Like attracts like.
It's a well-known quote by a famous economist. In no way is it dismissive or sarcastic.
I hate AI. I will make that clear. Mankind has witnessed before the ramifications of runaway technology.
BUT, part of the thing about AI is the ever accelerating rate it increases in sophistication and scope. There is no doubt that within a year or two, probably less, AI DM's will exist. Will the first ones be any good? Compared to a human, of course not. But for those that have only experienced mediocre, at best, or even NO DM's, will be satisfied. And as AI gets more powerful, probably at a much faster rate than computer hardware did (yeah, I have lived through the 1st PC's to what we have today) exponentially grew. I am positive that wotc will incorporate that into whatever form of video game they want to morph D&D into.
Someone please just start a new thread for this. And by the way @JustaFarmer, there are already AI DMs. ChatGPT is one and people have played with it.
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HERE.As far as preventing it. It’s important to remember that art is a revenue maker for them. They sell prints of the art pieces in their books, or at least license them and allow the artist to sell them. People won’t buy AI art, they can just “make” that themselves, and as aedorsay says, they can’t copyright it. At which point, they can’t really sell it. So WotC has a very clear motive to not have AI art in their books. Even people who might not trust WotC must surely trust the company wants to make money.
But even still it’s all but impossible for staff to prevent it, or at least it will be. As it becomes higher and higher quality, it will be harder and harder to stop. At some point, they just need to trust the people they work with not to misrepresent themselves.
As a note, it is a bad faith argument to imply or assert, without tangible evidence, that WotC may have incorporated AI art intentionally when they have explicitly stated that they did not.
A good faith argument accepts the premise that they did it by without knowing, were shocked, and apologized for it, and then publicly reaffirmed their commitment to not using AI art.
This is important to note because a bad faith argument is neither reasoned nor logical. It also means that a conversation has "jumped the rails", so to speak, because people arer esorting to something they have made up.
There is another reason this matters: hasbro is a big company with much money (however great their debt is). Things like this have an impact on the amount of money they make. Things that are unprovable or untrue in a court of law means that those making such assertions or implying such things are gonna lose. Stating those things in a location that is the property of WotC is basically giving them evidence should they opt to (for whatever reason) take a dump on some nobody.
This is, as I noted earlier, part of the reason that the recent youtubers who started to say that recent art was AI made explicit apologies. They may not be a typical player in a forum, but the law doesn't make a distinction there.
Even if you hate the guts of everyone at WotC, saying things that you cannot prove to be true on the property of WotC (essentially akin to standing in their door and saying it, metaphorically) about WotC that are potentially detrimental to the well being of the company is an unwise action.
Getting back to the topic of Layoffs, it is fairly apparent that the layoffs were done because as a corporation, Hasbro -- and WotC in particular -- were "top heavy" in terms of middle managers and supervisory roles; there were people whose sole job was to supervise themselves. Along with such actions there is a consideration of salary costs and the benefits involved.
laying people off just before Christmas is a Dick Move no matter who does it; personally, I am of the general opinion that layoffs shouldn't be a thing, fckin deal, but that's an emotional reactive thought, not one balanced in reason and practical reality.
However, it happened. piss poor management of the D&D portfolio has been a thing forever -- no one has ever successfully run the company without either screwing up the thing internally or pissing off the fans and players of the game. It started long before Arneson. This is why when I first popped in I talked about them firing the folks who bought the company from the folks who fired the folks who created the game.
That folks would expect different is a shock. Did anyone recall why it was Hasbro bought Wizards? Does anyone recall the stuff said about how terrible it was that a bunch of folks who created a card game from their D&D game and palled around with the folks at that weird ass White Wolf company were the ones that bought the beloved game -- and then released a version called 3.0? 3.5 is looked back on with fondness today, but people did not like 3.5 at first.
Hell, people didn't like 2e at first -- and 2e saved the freaking company until the folks that took over the same year drove it back into the ground before selling it to Wizards.
monte Cook was supposed to be lead designer of 5e, but left over differences of opinion with the company (WotC or Hasbro). The list of stuff that pisses off fans is long, ugly, and this isn't even the first time that D&D has had folks laid off.
Not even the first time during the holiday season.
Pardon me if I take more than a few large grains of salt with the panic over AI art being used, distrust of the people who own the rights and make the game (when those same people are the ones beign laid off, wtf people?), some ludicrous idea of turning it into a video game (newsflash: most of the videogames are inspired by D&D's systems), or whatever the lastest "but you can't do that' is.
They can, they will, they do not have the same priorities as you think they do or should.
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But was Wizards shocked by it? I think they were surprised, but I highly doubt it was shocking to see a company that hires countless artists have one that utilized AI?
Also. I don't recall them apologizing.. Merely explaining they didn't know of this and that generative AI in their books was disallowed in future.
And I think it's baseless and dumb to assume Wizards knew about this and is lying and was testing the waters and blah blah blah blah. But your version of events is false and people can make arguments in good faith that are baseless or without tangible evidence.
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HERE.