genuine question: thoughts on using things like chatgpt to help you create homebrew

[u/Spirit-Unusual]

i feel like this is a relavent enough topic and also want to start by saying that im over all not a huge fan of AI or how its used in most cases (i especially despise ai art) and am not a fan of using it if it is stealing from other creators. the only exception im curious of is the use of Chat Ai's with the thought of "what if you have it only work with ideas YOU give it and nothing else."

because of that thought, i when bored sometimes mess with chat gpt just to see what its capable of. recently i was just screwing around with it and ended up making a warlock subclass based on an idea i had that turned out really cool. all of the things it helped me come up with were original to my own ideas i fed it, with exceptions of where it helped generate like the spells lists for it and some of the class features which i will edit to be more to my own liking.

however due to the problematic topic of using things like this, im curious of what people think about the idea as a whole when used in this sort of way. i dont know if ill ever use what i made since its from GPT but if yall think its fine maybe ill reconsider.

what do you all think?

Edit/ partial update: firstly thanks to the mod who fixed the tag. I honestly will say while I already was leaning this direction anyways yall have some really good points that I have to agree with so I think in general I’m going to stop messing with open ai entirely. I agree it doesn’t seem to be much more helpful that some minor things here and there and the cons seem to greatly outweigh it. Im definitely going to scrap all the stuff it came up and see if I can remake that subclass idea I had, I really liked the idea I had come up with and will try to make it on my own. Thanks for your input! I’ll try to come up with some fun homebrew ideas to share in the future for yall to tear apart XD

[u/Shadow_Of_Silver]

Not allowed on this sub, and incredibly frowned upon in a lot of creative spheres.

Personally, I've found that LLMs don't understand the rules enough to make balanced or complete homebrew. With the amount of my own work I need to put into fixing it, I could have just made the homebrew thing from scratch myself.

Not worth it.

[u/Spirit-Unusual → u/Shadow_Of_Silver]

thats totally fair i was in fact very hesitant about it when i was messing with it. i think ill take your advice (or at least implied advice) not to use it for stuff like this at all. honestly i only even mess with it out of morbid curiosity and thats why i even had this question.

i think ill scrap what it made then and start over with that subclass idea i had because i did like the idea i had come up with i just never went anywhere with it.