The publisher of a small imprint of roleplaying games magazines/speculative fiction shuts down after 22 years because their submissions have been flooded with AI to the extent they cannot wade through them:
“The problem with AI is the people who use AI. These are people who think their ‘ideas’ are more important than the actual craft of writing, so they churn out all these ‘ideas’ and enter their idea prompts and think the output is a story.”
@jasonkoebler Within the #TTRPG space, there's been a lot of soul-searching and reinvention, as many of us have confronted racist and colonialist ideas that were foundational to the hobby and that persist in unexamined cliches.
LLMs are thoughtless cliche machines, that could overwhelm a lot of that hard work of reinvention.
@jasonkoebler This has been a problem forever. People think "ideas" are the hard part.
"Ideas" are the first step only in a long, hard process of work.
"Business ideas" are a dime a dozen. I can sit down with someone and brianstorm a dozen fully viable business ideas in an hour. Note: I don't build a dozen businesses an hour because MAKING A BUSINESS IS HARD WORK!
Same with writing. I can come up with story ideas aplenty. Note: I'm not published because WRITING IS HARD WORK!
Add comment