#256: Algorithmic AI Content Generation and RPGs

This week, Morrus and Peter talk about algorithmic AI generated content and RPGs. In the news, D&D Beyond, Itch.io, Roll20, and Fantasy Ground summer sales, official Adventure Time RPG announced, Baldur’s Gate 3 release date change, and more! Plus a listener question about Creative Commons vs ORC License and brand new sketch about interesting alchemical experimentation.

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News

D&D Beyond Summer Sale https://www.enworld.org/threads/theres-a-big-d-d-summer-sale-on-right-now.698639/

Itch.io Summer Sale https://itch.io/sales

Official Adventure Time RPG Announced from Cryptozoic https://www.enworld.org/threads/official-adventure-time-rpg-uses-new-yes-and-system.698381/

News Digest for July 7 (Baldur’s Gate 3 release date changes, Blood in Baldur’s Gate prequel, Call of Cthulhu events with Mark Meer, The One Ring $2 million Magic: The Gathering card found) https://www.enworld.org/threads/news-digest-for-july-7.698630/

What’s OLD is NEW (WOIN) Starter Box Kickstarter launches https://www.enworld.org/threads/whats-old-is-new-starter-box-is-here-back-this-fantasy-modern-sci-fi-ttrpg-with-an-open-license.698590/

Gloomhaven BackerKit campaign over $3 million https://www.backerkit.com/c/cephalofair/gloomhaven

Savage Worlds 20th Anniversary Celebration Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/545820095/savage-worlds-20th-anniversary-celebration

BREACH! Public Playtest on Itch.io https://orangeindigo.itch.io/breachbeta

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Algorithmic Content Generation and RPGs

OpenAI Hit With Class Action Over ‘Unprecedented’ Web Scraping from Bloomberg Law https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/openai-hit-with-class-action-over-unprecedented-web-scraping

Authors file lawsuit against OpenAI for unlawfully ‘ingesting’ their books from The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jul/05/authors-file-a-lawsuit-against-openai-for-unlawfully-ingesting-their-books

US Copyright Office: AI Generated Works Are Not Eligible for Copyright from ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ai-generator-art-text-us-copyright-policy-1234661683/

Thought experiment in the National Library of Thailand https://medium.com/@emilymenonbender/thought-experiment-in-the-national-library-of-thailand-f2bf761a8a83

The Chinese Room Argument (philosophical experiment about a person alone in a room following a computer program for responding to Chinese characters slipped under the door) https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/

Chinese Room 2 (a spin-off of the Chinese Room Argument from Tumblr user lumsel to explain how ChatGPT and other large language models work) https://www.tumblr.com/lumsel/712577333350023168/chinese-room-2

Lawyer Used ChatGPT In Court - And Cited Fake Cases. A Judge Is Considering Sanctions from Forbes https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/06/08/lawyer-used-chatgpt-in-court-and-cited-fake-cases-a-judge-is-considering-sanctions/

Dungeons & Dragons Player Gets AI Bot to DM, Works Surprisingly Well from TheGamer https://www.thegamer.com/dungeons-dragons-chatgpt-ai-dm/

American Scientist article on Bias Optimizers https://www.americanscientist.org/article/bias-optimizers

ChatGPT gender discrimination example with nurse and doctor, doubles-down on sexism by stating that the doctor must be male and nurse must be female from April 2023 https://hkotek.com/blog/gender-bias-in-chatgpt/

ChatGPT’s “jailbreak” tries to make A.I break its own rules or die from CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/06/chatgpt-jailbreak-forces-it-to-break-its-own-rules.html

Artists Voice Concerns Over the Signatures In Viral LensaAI Portraits from ARTnews https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/signatures-lensa-ai-portraits-1234649633/

Getty Images is suing the creators of AI art tool Stable Diffusion for scraping its content from The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23558516/ai-art-copyright-stable-diffusion-getty-images-lawsuit

Gizmodo’s io9 Published an AI-Generated Star Wars Article That Was Filled With Errors from Variety (it was a list of Star Wars content in chronological order that left out multiple shows including Andor and Kenobi and lists The Clone Wars coming after Rise of Skywalker, which is incorrect both in-universe and in real-world release dates) https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/io9-ai-generated-star-wars-article-errors-1235662194/

A sci-fi magazine has cut off submissions after a flood of AI-generated stories from NPR https://www.npr.org/2023/02/24/1159286436/ai-chatbot-chatgpt-magazine-clarkesworld-artificial-intelligence

ChatGPT uses between 1L of water per 40-100 queries https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-generative-ai-water-use-environmental-impact-study-2023-4

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