The Ennie Awards will disallow generative AI in product nominations starting in 2025-2026 after community backlash over AI's environmental impacts and labor exploitation. Current submissions for the 2024-2025 cycle can include AI-generated elements. This policy aims to protect human creativity central to the tabletop role-playing games (TTRPG) community. The organization, a volunteer-run entity since separating from the EN World forums, emphasizes their adaptive role in engaging with concerns over emerging technologies impacting creative industries. Award winners are set to be revealed at Gen Con in August.
"Beginning with the 2025-2026 submission cycle, the ENNIE Awards will no longer accept any products containing generative AI or created with the assistance of Large Language Models or similar technologies for visual, written, or edited content.…"
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