> Ben and Ryan chat about [...] the potential for GenAI to revolutionize game development by creating an infinite array of dynamic game worlds

(from the blog post)

Using this a jumping off point more than anything - GenAI can be quite good for running an RPG. Especially in play by post/over chat. But even otherwise, it can quickly come up with a description of things that won't sound overly mundane.

Like, generating a tavern. A cave. A village. Useful things to have in your pocket for when players decide to investigate rumours, or go in the wilderness, or try to go to that village you only marked on your map and never expanded on.

Makes prepping for games much easier, since you can just pre-gen these and pull them as needed. Or expand upon if needed.

Now that I think about it, it might also be quite useful at generating rumours. Feed it some fact about the setting and try to generate plausible sounding slightly misinformed descriptions. I'm sure a gen AI can come up with plausible sounding slight BS that's somewhat based on something of substance. Gen AI is very good at that under normal circumstances, but rumours are probably one of the best application there.

Not a fan of AI generated content of any sort.

@GcL What about Markovian chains? Because that's essentially what I like using an LLM within an RPG for. It's a useful tool to string descriptions together.

@VLAZ I would expect a markov model to choose a series of words to perform even worse than an llm, so I expect I'd like the result even less.