2026.05.13 Kenny "Whitwashing" How He Could Fix His Own Mistakes for $$$

As one would expect, there is some more back & forth between industry folks and Ken "Whit" Whitman. So far my favorite thing has been that someone coined a new word to describe Ken's omission of his own name off of the contributions for 4 Pillar Games: "Whitwashing"

On James Lowder's Facebook page we've seen Kenny returning to an old trope: offering to take (anybody's) to fix/solve a problem he created. OK, "trope" might be a bit too strong of a word, but the first thing that came to mind is when Kenny wanted a couple hundred bucks for a hard drive to cough up his KoDT:LAS footage....IIRC he was legally obligated (as in part of his contract, as referenced by the D-Team) to turn over that footage to begin with.

On a related note, he has offered to work on getting those files if he gets a new contract (i.e.....consideration) for doing so.

Then there is the time he said he'd do an interview for $500.

So.....maybe trope is an appropriate word!.....

...anyway on to this particular example of said trope:

"My idea was to put two button buttons one if somebody would volunteer to write about somebody

The second one was to ask for a donation of $100 and $95 of that would go to pay somebody to write them

The only reason it’s not $100 is there’s a 3% surcharge using a credit card

I’d be willing to make the damn thing nonprofit where everyone has to see where the money went. I’m OK with.

It’s something that would have to be done for love which is the thing I did with the AI.

I am 60 years old. I’m trying to help. I have no agenda.

Now the reason that it’s $100, which is probably gonna be far below word count for most of you, is that if we don’t keep it inexpensive than only the popular people are gonna be written about. And how is that fair?"

There it is! "Pay me some money to fix the problem I created" I like the touch where he's form yet another organization to "see where money went". Sounds just like having a "money guy: to monitor spending for his various Kickstarters......see how well that went?

The Whitwashing is that he "wrote" the original articles using AI (again without using his name!) and has claimed that if he was to do the articles manually they would cost a metric shit-ton of money. This is laughable for a couple of reasons. 1st is thinking he's a desirable source of knowledge about the gaming industry. We literally have historians, people trained to do appropriate research, working on these things already. A quick search of Amazon (or your favorite bookseller) can net you professional recollections. 

I don't know about you, but I don't want to watch an AI video or read a banal overview of "Loe Zacchii", for example. Even with Kenny's panache for bad grammar, absent punctuation, and atrocious spelling, if he put in a honest effort, the end results might have been not only respectful, but entertaining and of some value. In the commentary on his Most Influential Tabletop Game Icons page, he has an outline how he could possibly use AI to assist an honest effort. Instead he's trading effort for quantity and accuracy, but for the low, low price of $100 he can be persuaded to fix the entries....

Interesting how fixing the problem will cost $100 but according to him, doing it correctly the 1st time would cost $70 (6 to 8 hours of labor for $10/hr). I'm using his numbers.....but of course Kenny likes the odd math....if the AI does the research it'd take him 6-8 hours to write, but if he has to do everything "from scratch" writing would only take 4 hours?

"If I was to give you an honest answer. I've done 600 of these and a matter of two months.. let's assume that I wanted to do each of these by hand and let's assume that my time spent doing it is $10 an hour. What are we talking here 24,000 $28,000. I ain't nobody gonna pay for that. That's why I'm just making nice little AI things that don't say anything bad about nobody 🙂....Research, my three AI’s scan over 300 websites and a matter of 45 minutes to 60 minutes

If I had to do that, I would say that would would say that that would take me 40 hours

And then they actually write it from scratch another good four hours

So 44 hours per person

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If you have the AI research it and then you just wrote the paper yourself

6 to 8 hours

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The way that I do it is, I haven’t research it and write it and then I go through every bit of it for fact, checking and like all the people that are on this website, I personally know or have met 80% of them

So it’s not like I’m some fanboy doing it"