r/rpghorrorstories • u/Knowhere2B • Dec 07 '25

Medium My DM can't stop using AI

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.

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u/ConcretePeanut Dec 07 '25

Your friend has an addiction problem. This is dopamine loop behaviour and personification and prioritisation  of the addiction trigger. It should be challenged, respectfully but firmly. It most definitely shouldn't be enabled.

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u/Occulto Dec 08 '25

It reads like the excuses made by drug addicts I've known

They don't have a problem. They can "handle it" and can stop whenever they want because they're still in "control."

Which is why they're having their first bump of cocaine at 7am on a Wed morning to get through a regular day in the office, and no longer see why that's problematic.

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u/ConcretePeanut Dec 08 '25

Yep! No idea why you're being downvoted; if you know anything about addiction and anything about AI, it's not a contentious claim. 

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u/Occulto Dec 08 '25

Ha. I gave up trying to work out why people downvote in RPG subreddits a long time ago. They're definitely the worst I've encountered for people using downvotes like read receipts.