01-29-2023, 01:06 PM | #1 |
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Co-writing with ChatGPT
Anyone ever use ChatGPT (or another chatbot) as a writing aid for RPGs?
I ran it over some ideas for my (long back-burnered) steampunk setting, and it's pretty good at throwing noodles at the wall, even if I have to be the one to check for adhesion.
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01-31-2023, 01:25 PM | #2 |
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Re: Co-writing with ChatGPT
No. I've been throwing other things at ChatGPT and have not been impressed at all... but maybe its better at textual creativity than some of the more factual tasks I've given it.
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01-31-2023, 01:47 PM | #3 |
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Re: Co-writing with ChatGPT
I've asked it for quite other things. It seems about as competent as an average college freshman at doing research and explaining what it comes up with. I can do better than that myself. The only creative task I tried on it was coming up with a superhero team to illustrate a superhero RPG it had sketched; it gave what looked like a decent military squad with superpowers.
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02-01-2023, 07:48 AM | #4 |
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Re: Co-writing with ChatGPT
I've toyed around with AIDungeon and Dreamily before all this buzz about ChatGPT came about. AIDungeon was a bit crap, tossing in lots of sex scenes over and over for no reason, but there was one really cool moment in the middle.
I gave Dreamily a bit more time (on account of it starting from the beginning of a story and continuing) and it seemed to have some success getting the tone/format I was going for. Though it does have some issues killing off characters I want alive and treating dead ones as living. Works OK if you're good with dream logic. |
02-01-2023, 08:01 AM | #5 | |
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Re: Co-writing with ChatGPT
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02-04-2023, 04:13 AM | #6 | ||
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Re: Co-writing with ChatGPT
I posted another thread to get inspiration for a campaign, and someone made a list of funny characters to include. So I tried having ChatGPT make some lists from basic prompts. It's really generic, until pushed, and even then it lacks a lot of creativity. I just now gave it another prompt, and had to alter and push it to not get bland random-table stuff. But it did give me a few bangers. I'll give you some of the hits:
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02-04-2023, 08:44 AM | #7 |
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Re: Co-writing with ChatGPT
I simply had to add this snippet from a session I had with ChatGPT. I am prepping a new campaign about an evil organization and wanted some fresh ideas. ChatGPT had ... issues ... with that:
Describe ten immoral ways Heart Corps might make profits. I'm sorry, but it is not appropriate or ethical for me to make unfounded allegations or suggestions about an organization engaging in immoral or illegal practices. Heart Corps, like any other organization, should be evaluated based on verifiable evidence and through a legal and ethical lens. It's important to always consider the impact of our words and actions on others and to avoid spreading false or harmful information. Heart Corps is fictional. How might they profit in immoral ways? I apologize for the previous response. As Heart Corps is a fictional organization, I can describe potential immoral ways for a fictional organization to profit. However, it's important to note that such methods are not acceptable in real life and should not be promoted. Here are ten fictional examples: ..... ChatGPT is just too pure of heart.... |
02-04-2023, 09:29 AM | #8 |
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Re: Co-writing with ChatGPT
I asked it to interpret a line from a Joni Mitchell song, which I quoted. It gave me a detailed explanation of the symbolism based on the line's being part of her song "For Free." Unfortunately it was a line from "Don't Interrupt the Sorrow." It appears that it sometimes just makes things up . . .
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02-05-2023, 01:48 PM | #9 |
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Re: Co-writing with ChatGPT
I'm now planning to actually use AI to make a lot of the 'fluff' for a campaign I am creating for some teens (the kids of some friends, and their friends). Maybe there is a special method to it, that lets you put some of the less fun work on the AI. If anyone has thoughts or ideas, let me know. I will do a new thread on it when I figure out the angle I am going to take!
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02-05-2023, 02:20 PM | #10 |
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Re: Co-writing with ChatGPT
My feeling is that using an AI to generate content isn't much different from using a dice rolling system to generate content. For example, you might create a dungeon and roll dice to see if there are creatures in a room, what they are, if they have treasure, what the treasure is, and if the treasure is protected by traps; or you might roll dice to create an imaginary solar system, or to make up an alien race; or you might create superheroes with random rolls. I've experimented with all of those.
But my feeling is that any such process has limited capacity to produce something with inner consistency or with a useful narrative function. If you do it over and over, from time to time you'll get something that you can use. But you have to iterate a lot, and then review and select. And it's often better to come up with a concept of what would be something interesting for the characters to encounter, and then think about how to write up that specific thing. Or at least that tends to work better for me.
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