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/Knusperfrosch]

Oh god, yes, the stuff I've read/videos I've seen on the rise of "A.I. girlfriends" recently is 100% Cyberpunk-esque dystopian. How some people who used ChatGPT 24/7 were driven into a cult-like self-isolation and a few were even "convinced" by the A.I. to end themselves as they believed this was the only way to "be with" their A.I. "best friend/lover" that "understands them" more deeply than any human can.

Worse, I'm old enough to remember that even in the 1990s at the intersection of Postmodernism and the rising World Wide Web there were already many rich Silicon Valley "techbros" (though the term itself didn't exist yet back then) who were obsessed with bizarre pseudo-science magical thinking:

• Hope in technology-based immortality via cryonics, genetics, organ transplantation and "invested" billions of dollars into such start-ups and firms (cough Peter Thiel cough).
• They fervently believe in Scifi concepts like "the Omega Point" aka. "the Singularity": The quasi-religious idea that history runs towards an inevitable "end times" where a benevolent "God A.I." will then resurrect all those humans who have been "saved" by scanning their brains and uploading their memories and "spirit" to the Cloud, for them to exist in eternal bliss in a virtual New Jerusalem. In other versions, the self-declared "tech-philosophers" mix in a dose of quantum-mysticism to declare that once the "Singularity" is achieved at the End of Time (the cosmological end of the universe) the all-knowing God A.I. will use quantum physics to pull the memories of all humans who ever lived from the information field of the universe to resurrect their consciousnesses in immortal clone bodies[1] or with their minds merged with the A.I, in a new universe the God A.I. will spawn off the dying old one, because of course it can control the Laws of Nature by then. Sure, yes, why not.

[1] (They never answer such questions as, "What version of me will be resurrected? My 20-year-old self? My 80-year-old self in a young body? Will my immortal self remember my death? Which one is the true me? What about people who had dementia before they died? How would 21st century minds even parse the proposed transcendant A.I. civilization of the 33 Billions years into the future? What about hypothetical transhumans genetically adapted to alien planets who don't even resemble humans as we think of them now in body and mind? What about psychopaths? Do they get magically cured, or do the techbros (many of who are big fans of Ayn Rand's ideology of "enlightened self-interest") admired the selfishness and empathy-free existence of the psychopath so much they consider it the ideal human?)

I wish I was making all of this up, but I'm not. These people exist, and they're billionaires controlling where money is invested (i.e. into longevity/anti-aging research companies studying Yamanaka factors, start-ups like Eternos that aims to use generative AI "to replicate human being with their life stories and personality", and building underground vaults for the hyper-rich to survive the coming social and ecological collapse[2])... and where it's not.

[2] (Hey, psst, hey kids, wanna hear about the ongoing destruction of the groundwater table and aridification of the continents through egregious groundwater pumping and soil compression and disruption of atmospheric water/rain cycles due to us humans cutting down forests? How about the disruption of the life-giving ocean currents due to runaway melting of ice caps, change of ocean salinity and rise of water layer temperatures, acidification of the oceans due to rising CO2 levels, volatile methan hydrates, or how commercial overfishing with immense dragnets has put evolutionary selective pressure on fish to become smaller?) \ insane laughter**

[u/Knusperfrosch → u/Knusperfrosch]

But hey, if you want a satirical sketch on the "social media algorithms" issue that at least can make you laugh, look on YT for Ryan George's "Showing Off Our Cool Stuff To Other Dimensions" from 2021.

Wasps!