AI in PbP

Yea, I have a lot "formal" writing and technical writing and "persuasive" writing education and training and jobs in my background, and I use a lot of these same devices (and more).

No surprise that LLM's were trained with formal and technical writing techniques.

I've actually picked up emdashes from AI! I like them better than an overuse of commas. I'm also someone who loves using semicolons, so it's not that weird.

Like others have said, I enjoy using AI as a tool and not as a finished product. NotebookLM helps me find notes and connect pieces in massive setting books, and ChatGPT help me make lists and absolutely helps me with GP coding for fancy posts; I was able to use it to make a complex WFRP skill list for sheets.

I've started shying away from image generators. Not for an ethical reason (after all, in my eyes it isn't that different from stealing images from the Internet, and just as harmless in our uses here), but because I've grown weary of its flaws. It's fun to tinker around with and help folks realize their characters, but I just haven't been happy with the end results.

That said, I'd rather my players use AI images than anything from HeroForge. If you want a soulless portrait, that's where they have mastered the art.

Yep, some of us, well—we’ve been using the em dash for years! Semicolons and proper ellipses, too…

(Great enablers for some top-shelf run-on sentences, too!)

Agree about HeroForge portraits. No thanks.

So you get ten times the pay, right?

More like ten times the work, probably.

AI is a tool.

Use it to compose and it will sound like a tool.

Use it to enhance composition and it will amaze.

Primarily the generative AI of the 1970's and today produce about the same quality content. Modern AI does it faster.

It was never meant to replace the human element, only t enhance it.

I wish! :) Fortunately part of our compensation is based on how well our region is doing, so it improved the pay.

Doing same amount of working hours.

Why would it be ten time the amount of work, AI is making the work easier, not harder if i understand properly?

I will admit I go back and forth from being too reliant on AI to not using it at all. Ideally I usually write up 4-5 sentences of a prompt then turn that into a post. I would then reread and proof it.

On good days, I manually edit but will admit to have also tried just prompt adjustments on less than ideal circumstances.

I have also used it for speech mannerisms if I am going for a certain dialect or something I am unfamiliar with.

I usually also use NotebookLM for review My irl games I also record audio and upload to give them a "podcast" of the play session with the audio recap generation. I have done that in pbp as well, literally copying an entire thread text and pasting.

Edit: this is as a GM. As a player I try and not use it at all other than for maybe a character introduction post.

The boss sees you doing more work in the same amount of time. Boss Brain activates - must mean that they can do even more work! Here's an additional load for you, enjoy! The pay? Same, of course!

I see hahaha... such is life! :) Thats why most people in Japan work at 50% capacity, they afraid to get more work.

That's not just Japan. I had to learn to work "slow" at my last place. Was pretty jarring.

Repeating things three times is also magickal incantation. Politicians use it all the time (as did dark magician, Jimmy Saville)

Thought I would share my experience with this tool as well. I have a game that is hybrid in-person and PbP. I have used NoteBookLM to weave a "recap" for my party for both of them using the Audio Overview feature:

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This Audio Overview functionally spans (functionally) 2 sessions, one in person that was recorded and a thread of PbP. The LLM then took both sources and melded them into a single recap overview. This has proven really great for my players especially if they get lost in the narrative or just want to hear everything that has happened so far or (since we only do in-person every couple months) I need a recap of everything. It also has great analysis tools and finding tools for details you might have forgotten.

Unfortunately I didn't record the in-person session before the start of this one but I do plan on doing that forward. As for the Gamersplane threads, I literally just copy and paste the page with all of the pages expanded and it seems to work great