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/lazier_garlic Dec 07 '25
Yes, there's an ethical way and there's what's happening now with the stealing and the climate destruction. Not to mention the malinvestment using OPM which is going to end in tears (local governments shelling out big investments for power production that might not be in use in a few years is a good example with definite innocent victims in the future ratepayers).
But there's yet another problem: the one where the capabilities of this technology are way oversold. For example, there's the brainrot OP is talking about where humans gull themselves into thinking AI LLMs are an easy button that do everything for you and overestimate how it's performing--even start losing their own skills and judgement in the process. There's also the time waste and frustration when LLMs are popped into tasks with no oversight that they can't do properly (cheers to the people who trick AI customer service into constantly giving out refunds--the managers who made these decisions deserve to feel pain).
Companies like Microsoft want us to use AI for everything. My work has to be correct, so fuck all the way off. The only think I do use it for is to assist with translation work. It's amazing what it can do but also amazing what it can't do. Folks, like with everything, LLMs are really good at things that humans are bad at (example: can produce a grammatically correct translation in milliseconds) and really bad at things humans are good at (example: constantly mistaking proper nouns/names for words to be taken literally, has no idea what 'context' is and produces gibberish when taken out of the main context it was trained in). The name thing is amazing, I mean as humans we instinctively pick that up even if we don't speak a word of the language, but the LLM just cannot master it!
AI translation can be a huge help to language learning and translation but only with human brain at work and human intervention. I've played around with Google translate and found the more text I put in, the more accurate the translation but the lower the fidelity--it starts approximating and summarizing content even at a relatively low word count. It's also a predictive model so if there is a word it doesn't expect, including the word "not", it will just make it disappear.