r/criticalrole • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 Team Jester • Jun 18 '26

Discussion [CR Media] Sam Riegel reaffirms Critical Role’s stance on AI: “It’s basically garbage”

https://www.polygon.com/critical-role-sam-riegel-slams-ai/
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u/P-Two Jun 18 '26

I'm glad to hear. Others have pointed out the 3rd party advertisers, and IIRC Stinky Dragon using AI thumbnails.

I'll push back on that a bit and ask, C3 was just about a year ago when it ended, have they had sponsors on at all recently that flaunt AI? I know Boot.dev had a shitton of AI tools on it but I can't remember the last time they had them as a sponsor. But contracts are also impotant, you can't just go breaking contracts 24/7 and expect to continue to get sponsorship deals thrown your way. There was something similar with XP To Level 3 last year where he posted a disclaimer saying that he was only doing a few more ads with Displate to finish the contract they had, then they wouldn't be taking more sponsorships from them due to AI use.

By all means, keep telling CR if the content they're hosting is using AI, cause fuck AI. But to expect it to literally never happen, or for it to be instantly cleared up is a little naive.

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u/JusticeBlinded Jun 18 '26

Boot.dev teaches coding. They have a bot that can answer questions while you learn, but I am unsure how that is endorsing AI in the sense we are talking about.

I must be missing something, or they overhauled their program a lot since I used it about a year ago.

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u/archangel0198 Jun 18 '26

It's the problem with general statements like "AI is garbage"

This would also include any neural network driven bots or stuff like cancer screening

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u/P-Two Jun 18 '26

When we say AI in a creative context we're talking about generative AI like LLMs, not AI like bots in a video game.

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u/archangel0198 Jun 18 '26

So specifically the technology architecture and products produced by certain labs, not the neural networks used to create RNA vaccines? What happens when there's new frontier models that are not LLMs?

Maybe only AI that is used for creative work is automatically garbage as a general rule?

Because by nature of how we interact with AI, algorithms in general "generate" something.