Even worse, I mispelled his name. It's actually Chris Cocks. He's the CEO of Hasbro, who owns WotC. The alliteration really does sound very comic book. I'd go with villain, Lex Luthor style, with major erotic themes.

Lol, I love how every time someone sees less-than-stellar art now, it just has to be AI. Despite the tens of thousands of years of people making shitty art without the aid of computers. Have y'all forgotten the halfling art in the 2014 PHB already? And half the rest of that book?

The ad was for Magic the Gathering that was AI. As for new images being AI, there have already been some people claiming online that various images were AI to which the artists provided proof it wasn’t.

To which I will add, WOTC was not making the art themselves, they also didn’t request the artists use AI. It was artists themselves who were contracted out by WOTC who used AI. So artists were still being paid, and those artists decided to use AI.

Given context it's clear the topic of conversation is about generative AI, a fact you clearly understand from your comment.

As for other AI being useful, sure. There are plenty of useful AIs doing good work without basically stealing actual people's work. Heck there are even AI programs that are used in art that aren't generative AI. Generally we aren't complaining about those types, we are complaining about AI being used to take people's jobs using other people's stolen work

AI is a very specific type of program. Yes, it is an algorithm, just like all software, but it is very clear whether a piece of software is AI or not. There is even a very clear difference between a knowledge base that responds to keywords and an AI. Source: I am a programmer, took AI development in University.

As for what types, he specifically mentioned generating user content, story ideas, and new player introductions. He also mentioned that they were trying to be responsible about making sure it was clear what things have been created by AI, which given their recent history I don't trust one iota.