I'm so continuously thankful I don't have tech bro brainrot.
I've been playing with a consistent group for a while now and the DM has slowly escalated his use of AI and it's gotten to the point of being rampant. He'll regularly use genAI and a dozen other AI automation tools for running the game, generating nonsensical quest lines, player character arcs, locations, character art, and magic items that are either broken, underwhelming, or just straight up copying an established feature that the person's class already does thus rendering the item useless. Everything, down to session notes and summaries. And it's all just...disgusting.
He created an entire quest line centered on my character utilizing backstory elements that was clearly made by AI because the entire thing was completely disjointed from the backstory points I wrote, the NPCs in question didn't behave at all like they were described, and one of them actively wanted to kill my character suddenly despite being the single positive interaction in said backstory NPC roster...now a sworn homicidal revenge-driven murderer. For some shit my character didn't even do, no less. Literally just hallucinations from the AI chat bot that are now canon about my character. It's so fucking insulting.
His reason is also pure cope too; that he works full time so he just has to use AI to save him that 20-45 minutes (according to him) of prep time it would take to just make some shit up himself or, god forbid, improv something. I know the job market lately is garbage so some people are working themselves to death or potentially just straight up unemployed and stressed about that, but for MOST of my TTRPG career I've worked full time if not overtime and had a successful healthy relationship and other hobbies on the side too. And I never needed AI to do it. Passion is free. Effort is free. Attention and care and consideration are free.
I just don't get how people are fine with that either. He has 2 games he runs with 2 different groups that usually meet weekly. My players would be horrified if I showed up every week with what they hope to be effort and passion for their characters and the world and they were greeted by AI slop for quests and NPC interactions that I as a DM couldn't even bother to make myself or, again, god forbid, fucking improv.
I don't want to abandon this table because I do like the people and I'm invested in what I know the guy can actually do when he gives a fuck, but it's been a solid year since this shit started to kick up and it's just so disappointing.