ChatGPT has been a lifeline for me as a GM with little spare time to prep and far too grand ambitions for the scale and scope of (D&D) campaign I want to run. I’m curious how other GMs have found ChatGPT and similar AI tools useful or helpful in running their own games. I’ll share my own workflow below as a comment, and I hope others find it useful. I’m especially interested in any ChatGPT prompts you have found worthwhile, and you can see some of my own prompts in the examples I’ll share shortly.
See, in my campaign I do what you’re talking about with regards to mashing ideas together. I just use ChatGPT to get a detailed description of a room/character and to help me to plan out how I ought to glue the ideas together in a way that fits my setting/theme. Sometimes it even adds additional influences to the mix to make the idea seem more embedded in the setting and original.
If you just use it on the prep side, you maintain full editorial control, and you can reply to its bad ideas with “let’s do it more like this:” and it’ll revise its descriptions/ideas to match.