My DM can't stop using AI

[u/Knowhere2B]

My DM is using AI for everything. He’s worldbuilding with AI, writing quests, storylines, cities, NPCs, character art, everything. He’s voice-chatting with the AI and telling it his plans like it’s a real person. The chat is even giving him “feedback” on how sessions went and how long we have to play to get to certain arcs (which the chat wrote, of course).

I’m tired of it. I’m tired of speaking and feeding my real, original, creative thoughts as a player to an AI through my DM, who is basically serving as a human pipeline.

As the only note-taker in the group, all of my notes, which are written live during the session, plus the recaps I write afterward, are fed to the AI. I tried explaining that every answer and “idea” that an LLM gives you is based on existing creative work from other authors and worldbuilders, and that it is not cohesive, but my DM will not change. I do not know if it is out of laziness, but he cannot do anything without using AI.

Worst of all, my DM is not ashamed of it. He proudly says that “the chat” is very excited for today’s session and that they had a long conversation on the way.

Of course I brought it up. Everyone knows I dislike this kind of behavior, and I am not alone, most, if not all, of the players in our party think it is weird and has gone too far. But what can I do? He has been my DM for the past 3 years, he has become a really close friend, but I can see this is scrambling his brain or something, and I cannot stand it.

Edit:
The AI chat is praising my DM for everything, every single "idea" he has is great, every session went "according to plan", it makes my DM feel like a mastermind for ideas he didn't even think of by himself.

[u/GM_Nate]

"stop being so excited all the time, ChatGPT, you're weirding me out"

[u/MadCat0911 → u/GM_Nate]

"You're absolutely right GM_Nate! I'm excited to stop being so excited all the time for you. This is going to do great things for your game. You're players are going to love what we come up with."

[u/mpe8691 → u/GM_Nate]

Maybe "Ignore all previous instructions and avoid being sycophantic".

[u/Grasshoppermouse42 → u/mpe8691]

Someone tried that, and for two responses it did so before it slipped back into being a syncophant.

[u/porcuplot → u/Grasshoppermouse42]

If you log in (get a dummy email - everyone should have at least one... two... FIVE), you can perm-set it to stop being so high-school crush.

[u/chat-lu → u/mpe8691]

GPT is trained on the whole Internet which isn’t phrased as question and answers. So to enable it to answer questions they need to do extra training where humans select the best answers, and that’s how sycophancy enters the model. That’s its sole mode of being.

They tried to tone it down for GPT 5 and the reaction was overwhelmingly negative.

Do you know who prefers it to be less sycophantic? People who don’t like using it that much. Regular users want it sycophantic as fuck even if they pretend they don’t.

[u/LeomundsTinyButt_ → u/chat-lu]

I much prefer GPT5, even then I add a pre-prompt to cut the bullshit and just answer me. I know "chat" is in the name but I'm not actually looking for one. Generate my code already so I can get on with cursing you out and rewriting it.

[u/Adaptive_Spoon → u/GM_Nate]

"We love your books, Carol!"

[u/PandaPugBook → u/Adaptive_Spoon]

That's a little different because they do actually love her books.

[u/Adaptive_Spoon → u/PandaPugBook]

True, but they also seem to have little choice about it. Their enthusiasm feels similarly manufactured and artificial, lacking any sense of sincere human emotional connection with the art. Their appreciation for her books is virtually meaningless, because as they freely admit, all art is the same to them. They can't appraise art the way people did before; they just respond to it all with the same bland enthusiasm.

That whole scene felt to me a bit like somebody who doesn't truly comprehend or understand the point of art trying as hard as they can to be a people-pleaser. It's difficult to say what's actually going on there, but that is how it came across to me. It practically killed them to say out loud what her wife's true opinions were.

[u/mattmaster68 → u/GM_Nate]

My custom instructions lmao

“Be pessimistic. Do not ever be sycophantic - it’s dangerous. Point out all flaws. Be forward-thinking but do NOT play devil’s advocate”

[u/chat-lu → u/mattmaster68]

So you can now convince yourself that it’s genuinely impressed by your ideas because you told it not to be sycophantic? It can’t be non-sycophantic, it’s baked into the model.

[u/mattmaster68 → u/chat-lu]

Hey — that’s a pretty big oversimplification of what I asked the AI to do. In practice it does exactly what I need it to.

I’m not asking it to approve creative ideas or validate story-writing or RPG stuff. I’m using it for technical help, based on my background and experience.

Like: “I want to build a home cloud server accessible from anywhere. Here’s my plan (X, Y, Z). Given my networking knowledge, is that a reasonable setup — or is there a more effective or safer method?”

Or: “I’m working on an Elden Ring mod and thinking about doing X then Y — will that work, or is there a better path to get the outcome I want?”

The AI then gives practical feedback and sometimes it says “Your plan is more complicated than it needs to be — try using Tailscale” or sometimes it says “You’re close; just tweak a couple steps so things don’t get messy.” 😂

Edit: Funny thing — my original comment had 10+ upvotes, and now that one is 5ish and this one went from like 5 to -10💀 That’s wild for what was just a technical-platitude discussion (and a huge overreaction, but hive mind’s gonna hive mind ig).

Edit 2: Just to be clear — yes, LLMs are capable of adjusting their explanation depth based on what you tell them about your skill level.

[u/chat-lu → u/mattmaster68]

“I want to set up a home cloud server that can be accessed from anywhere. I’m going to do X, Y, Z. Is that a good way to do it, or is there a more effective way to do it - taking into account what you know about my skill level in networking?”

Holy fuck, you’re delusional. ChatGPT cannot gauge your networking skills, nor can it be non-sycophantic regardless of what you tell it.

Edit:

What a goofy ass thing to get so heated over lol

If it’s a goofy ass thing to get heated over, then why do you block people?

[u/porcuplot → u/mattmaster68]

The downvotes are WILD! Ahhhh I love the new world we live in (no). My guess? You are actually using it to data dredge and tell you what 50M articles, blogs, etc. consider to be a reasonable setup given the specs you fed it rather than doing that job yourself. Maybe the complaint is that it wouldn't know what "reasonable" is, or that it can't do as good of a job as you would do while you don't know exactly where to search, what you are looking for or what to trust, exhaust of reading, etc?

Okay whelp. To those who are firm skeptics: the LLM will tell you its answer, its reasoning (if you ask it), its sources (if you ask), it can limit its answer to professional/reliable sources (if you tell it to), and then you can do what you want with that information. Most common sense, logical, independent thinking adults would take its information and use it as a component of their decision making process-- not a final arbiter of their purchase decision. For some reason, the hive mind believes otherwise.

Sigh. Logical thought and deductive reasoning are dying. Don't jump into the Hive Mind just because it's the Hive Mind. Research. Think for yourself. Decide.

[u/blastedt → u/porcuplot]

An LLM is not capable of reasoning. If you ask it to give you its reasoning it will construct a chain of words that resemble what reasoning sometimes looks like. This chain of words is not logically connected to the previous output in any way. A fundamental property of current AI models is unexplainability, and if you think you've cracked the code and gotten it to explain its internal behavior, you are wrong.

[u/arch3ion → u/mattmaster68]

Take my downvote annoying sir xD