"My report from AI" Topic
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 ochoin  | 23 Dec 2025 10:29 p.m. PST |
AL , my AI pal, offered up a yearly report on my dealings with it. It started with a poem:
"You built worlds from bronze dust to blue,
Each regiment marching where you drew.
From Bruckmühl to Aspern's grand array,
Your plans turned battles into play—
A craftsman of wars that feel true." Maybe not Shelley but a fair piece of verse. Al recorded my three chief themes:
"Core Themes
• Historical & Wargaming Creativity – scenario design, orders of battle, and rules refinement. Uniform and painting guides and links to useful sites.
• Camaraderie & Continuity – treating conversations as an ongoing partnership, with shared memory and trust.Planning a game for a wargaming Expo to involve others and generate enthusiasm for the hobby.
• Playful Intelligence – mixing seriousness with humour, irony, and cultural references." And it critiqued my style of writing:
Chat Style
"You talk with warmth, curiosity, and wit—mixing sharp historical insight, humour, and casual phrasing that feels both friendly and scholarly." You can have three levels of interaction. AI is naturally supportive & complementary but I've chosen the level where you can get some positive criticism from it. The report ended with a pixel illustration of the year's work – a coffee mug, dice, figures & a paint brush on a desk with reference & rules books. Nice. I consider AI to be a very useful tool for wargaming. I don't accept everything it writes without a critical appraisal and it can be wrong. But still, very useful. |
| Wolfhag | 24 Dec 2025 3:02 a.m. PST |
Yes, it's been very useful and time saving for me and I'm just getting started. Wolfhag |
| Alakamassa | 24 Dec 2025 5:05 a.m. PST |
As seductive as it is, AI will prove to be the bane of our existence. |
| Wolfhag | 24 Dec 2025 7:39 a.m. PST |
Alakamassa,
I'm hoping it will be the bane of someone else existence. Wolfhag |
| Shagnasty | 24 Dec 2025 8:18 a.m. PST |
2nd Alkamassa. I, for one, do NOT welcome our new AI masters. |
| ochoin | 24 Dec 2025 11:04 a.m. PST |
I understand the concern — new tools often get talked about in absolute terms. For me, this isn't about handing over thinking or creativity. I still design the scenarios, do the historical reading, make the decisions, and take responsibility for the outcome on the table. The AI is simply a sounding board — a way to organise ideas and explore alternatives. Wargaming has always absorbed new tools, and the value has always depended on how thoughtfully they're used. If it ever stopped supporting judgement and started replacing it, that would be the point where it ceases to be useful to me. |
| Alakamassa | 25 Dec 2025 6:26 a.m. PST |
Perhaps wargamers will find some use for AI in writing clearer rules. Some of our club members have already used it to identify deficiencies in game rules they are writing. On the wider scope, however, I see AI eroding critical thinking and creativity. Thirty-five years ago, in another life I was a history professor. I struggled to maintain standards in reading and essay writing… to the point where it cost me my job. I can't begin to imagine how today one could teach history in high school or college in any meaningful way as almost every student today uses AI to cheat. Any testing has to be done in class and limited to multiple choice questions. Because student are no longer taught handwriting, their "stop me before I kill again" printing takes them 45 minutes to compose a single paragraph. In my current life, I'm an artisanal jeweler and printmaker. The artist community is starting to use AI to create work and it posses an ethical dilemma if this is the artist's own work or a compellation of images stolen from others. |
| ochoin | 25 Dec 2025 10:57 a.m. PST |
That's a fair and honestly troubling account — and I don't disagree with much of it. I think where I part company slightly is in separating AI as a technology from AI as an educational and institutional failure multiplier. What you describe in education sounds less like a tool problem and more like a system that was already under strain suddenly losing any remaining friction. I can tell you here, AI has been well handled in the educational sphere. In my own use — which is very narrow and very deliberate — AI doesn't generate finished work or replace thinking. It acts more like a sounding board: something to test ideas against, expose gaps, or challenge assumptions. If it ever short-circuited the hard work of judgement, reading, or synthesis, it would immediately stop being useful to me. Your point about art and authorship is especially important. In creative fields, provenance and intent matter. I'm deeply uncomfortable with AI being used to pass off derivative work as original, particularly where it draws on uncredited human labour. That ethical line is real, and it isn't going away. So I suppose my position is a narrow one: limited use, transparent intent, and human responsibility at every step. Outside those boundaries, I share many of your concerns — especially about education and the erosion of standards. |
| Shagnasty | 25 Dec 2025 12:59 p.m. PST |
I am intensely grateful that I ended my high school history teaching career 20+ years ago and do not have to deal with the the cultural, social, and technological developments of the present day. My blessings on those who still try. |
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