Should I use AI for DnD?

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Only use for AI in DMing for me is summarizing pre-written module text. Many, at least WotC material has huuuuge walls of text that are not usable at the table as such. With AI I get neat bullet points easily. Of course it needs a proper read through to correct and fill some details, and careful prompting to avoid AI hallucination.

 At which point you have expended as much work as doing it yourself. Which if you were to do so, you'd internalize the information and thus would find it easier to retain information about the module. AI summaries are second-hand thinking, especially if you consider official modules "huuuuge walls of text that are not usable at the table as such", something that is objectively untrue. Any given area will be 1-3 small paragraphs of text, including a text box you're supposed to read aloud.

Do your own thinking, you'll be better off for doing so

 

I should add that I'm not native english speaker and our table language is our native language. And even though I know english quite well, all of the players do not. So I do the notes in my language.

Of course I read the module text. After doing the bullet points I read and fill in some details that might be missing that were mentioned in the original text. Also I don't do description texts much in my notes, that comes mostly from my head on the fly.

I've gone through this process with and without AI and the end result is the same. Just faster with AI. I run 2-3 tables and sometimes the time between prep and session can be a bit long and I can't rely on just memorizing stuff.

Don't get me wrong, for generating new stuff I won't use AI ever. For all the reasons that are mentioned in this thread already.

 There's no ethical use of AI* under any circumstance. If you can do it slower without AI, the ethical thing is to do it slower. If you can't do it without AI, the ethical thing is to not do it. End of

*When I use the term AI, I'm using the colloquial term that refers to consumer facing, general perpurpose, generative LLMs such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude etc. I am not referring to learning or predictive models such as predictive text, or heuristic recognition models such as Siri or Google Assistance

Since this is an old thread, back from the land of the dead, i will respond thusly. 
Silly.

Short answer No. 
Long a n s w e r Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Value yourself enough to do your own thinking and learning. 

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Only use for AI in DMing for me is summarizing pre-written module text. Many, at least WotC material has huuuuge walls of text that are not usable at the table as such. With AI I get neat bullet points easily. Of course it needs a proper read through to correct and fill some details, and careful prompting to avoid AI hallucination.

 At which point you have expended as much work as doing it yourself. Which if you were to do so, you'd internalize the information and thus would find it easier to retain information about the module. AI summaries are second-hand thinking, especially if you consider official modules "huuuuge walls of text that are not usable at the table as such", something that is objectively untrue. Any given area will be 1-3 small paragraphs of text, including a text box you're supposed to read aloud.

Do your own thinking, you'll be better off for doing so

 

I should add that I'm not native english speaker and our table language is our native language. And even though I know english quite well, all of the players do not. So I do the notes in my language.

Of course I read the module text. After doing the bullet points I read and fill in some details that might be missing that were mentioned in the original text. Also I don't do description texts much in my notes, that comes mostly from my head on the fly.

I've gone through this process with and without AI and the end result is the same. Just faster with AI. I run 2-3 tables and sometimes the time between prep and session can be a bit long and I can't rely on just memorizing stuff.

Don't get me wrong, for generating new stuff I won't use AI ever. For all the reasons that are mentioned in this thread already.

 The process is slower without AI because you're taking more time to process and understand the information when you create the notes yourself. This is good. You're better prepared and have a stronger grasp on the material going into the session. Plus, doing the notes yourself means you're less likely to have errors in the notes as compared to using an AI tool.

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Since this is an old thread, back from the land of the dead, i will respond thusly. 
Silly.

Short answer No. 
Long a n s w e r Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Value yourself enough to do your own thinking and learning. 

 And when it comes to things like adventure ideas and NPCs, there's a wealth of resources that real people have created and made available for free online that you can use instead of relying on a data center that uses more power than a mid-sized city and enough water to end a county's drought.