tech
January 26, 2026
Dungeons & Dragons & Artificial Intelligences.
Parents since the ‘80s Satanic Panic have worried that kids playing Dungeons & Dragons wouldn’t be able to tell reality from fantasy, but maybe it was AI they should have been worried about all along.
TL;DR
- Concerns about AI blurring fantasy and reality have emerged, echoing the '80s Satanic Panic regarding Dungeons & Dragons.
- A user reported their AI assistant, Gemini, mistook their D&D roleplaying for real life.
- The user had to provide instructions to the AI to clarify that the D&D activities were fictional.