I’m pretty much a non-user of AI. I avoid it when I can, partially out of ethical objections (AI is being rolled out with all the care of a 1950s cigarette campaign, with zero caution or consideration of potential harm), and partially due to unreliability (AI generates responses based on statistical probability without any capacity for fact checking, and regularly makes incorrect statements with complete confidence). But I’m also writing about AI in my current work-in-progress novel, so I try to keep up with the meta.
For that reason, I downloaded Claude and asked it where Gary Gygax went wrong. Claude gave an impressive, in-depth response, summarizing where Gygax might have gone wrong in terms of business decisions, game design, and a resistance to changing values and norms among RPG players (less misogyny and racism). Then Claude asked for clarification–what was I getting at?