RA Salvatore just dumped ALL of his books into the LLM machine via the ironically named "Authors First" AI BS

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 Honor Among Thieves sucked so bad it felt like AI garbage. No grit, not seriousness, all stupid

This is a very odd take, so odd that it feels intentionally antagonistic. Honor Among Thieves was widely liked amongst the D&D community to the extent that news there wouldn't be a sequel received very poorly (sentiment I saw here, on reddit, on twitter etc)

Also HAT released in 2023, which is significantly before the era of AI slop we're in now. This was the year of "Will Smith eating spaghetti" levels of AI generated content, where text longer than a sentence was nonsensical, you were lucky if a hand had fingers let alone 7 of them, and video was.....well it's give even the most stoic impressionist painter nightmares.

Bit off topic but whether they’re D&D fans or not everyone I know who has seen Honour Among Thieves enjoyed it so this does seem like rage bait 

Definitely rage bait. HAT was an enjoyable film.

Anyway, I am not going to make apologia for a prominent figure just because he is a major pillar of modern D&D lore. It is definitely easier for me than for some because I never had a chance to become a fan. Now, it seems I never will.