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Steve Arnott

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630 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

Yes, it is definitely something I have a lot of fun with, both in my books and in my games. So yeah, looking forward to get stuck in.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

Yes, it is definitely something I have a lot of fun with, both in my books and in my games. So yeah, looking forward to get stuck in.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

Sadly. I went via the memes. It's fine.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

Sadly. I went via the memes. It's fine.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

I mean, I've used the mobile app pretty recently, but I'm playing what's now a legacy character, I guess, so I haven't seen any of the changes reflected. I've not done any exploring. Yeah, neither have I, so... Well, I don't know about that, so... I do like how in the statement that they made, they said, yes, there are these tech issues.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

I mean, I've used the mobile app pretty recently, but I'm playing what's now a legacy character, I guess, so I haven't seen any of the changes reflected. I've not done any exploring. Yeah, neither have I, so... Well, I don't know about that, so... I do like how in the statement that they made, they said, yes, there are these tech issues.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

Also, for some of you, you just had insufficient funds, so please replace your credit card. Some of you are poor, so. Some of you, you're right, it was our fault. And some of you just fixed your payment information.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

Also, for some of you, you just had insufficient funds, so please replace your credit card. Some of you are poor, so. Some of you, you're right, it was our fault. And some of you just fixed your payment information.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

Which is fair enough.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

Which is fair enough.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

I've been caught out by that with other kinds of books because, I mean, that's how pre-ordering books anywhere goes is it charges you when it ships. And I've had sort of payment methods that have expired since I made the pre-order and then not been updated.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

I've been caught out by that with other kinds of books because, I mean, that's how pre-ordering books anywhere goes is it charges you when it ships. And I've had sort of payment methods that have expired since I made the pre-order and then not been updated.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

And so then all of a sudden I don't have my pre-order because by the time it ships, it can't charge it to the payment method I had when I ordered it.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

And so then all of a sudden I don't have my pre-order because by the time it ships, it can't charge it to the payment method I had when I ordered it.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

Well, anyway. It's a slippery slope, though, from one to the other. Because if you're using it for those things, we're crossing into the territory of generative AI. Because if you look at... quote of what he said, the first things he talks about, mostly machine learning based AI or proprietary AI as opposed to chat GPT approach, he's talking about, like he says, machine learning based AI.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

Well, anyway. It's a slippery slope, though, from one to the other. Because if you're using it for those things, we're crossing into the territory of generative AI. Because if you look at... quote of what he said, the first things he talks about, mostly machine learning based AI or proprietary AI as opposed to chat GPT approach, he's talking about, like he says, machine learning based AI.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

That's basically really sophisticated autocomplete. It's not true AI. Generative AI is a different story altogether, and this is where the AI is taking things it can find and cobbling it together into something That is the thing that threatens intellectual property. It's the thing that threatens the publishing industry as a whole.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

That's basically really sophisticated autocomplete. It's not true AI. Generative AI is a different story altogether, and this is where the AI is taking things it can find and cobbling it together into something That is the thing that threatens intellectual property. It's the thing that threatens the publishing industry as a whole.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

But it's also the thing that people are using to create those images of their characters. And so it's participating in that thing that they are saying they don't necessarily agree with, but in a way that I guess they personally don't feel like is necessarily creating any harm. Yeah.

Morrus’ Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk
315 | Romance in RPGs with Sam Parks | Hasbro CEO talks AI and D&D, PHB pre-orders cancelled by PayPal

But it's also the thing that people are using to create those images of their characters. And so it's participating in that thing that they are saying they don't necessarily agree with, but in a way that I guess they personally don't feel like is necessarily creating any harm. Yeah.