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Dungeons & Dragons tells illustrators to stop using AI to generate artwork for fantasy franchise (apnews.com)

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Dungeons & Dragons tells illustrators to stop using AI to generate artwork for fantasy franchise::The Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game franchise says it won’t allow artists to use artificial intelligence technology to draw its cast of sorcerers, druids and other characters and scenery.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Idk all the details of the current wotc controversy train, but If an AI generates a base image that gets refined by a human, is not that human-created?

Plus like you know that $60 isn’t for the art or the time it took to make the art. It’s for the Dnd brand.

They’d charge $60 even if it was made in an afternoon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think part of the issue around the AI art controversy is the difficulty in drawing a clear box around it all. There's plenty of work going into the legal side of things (is it copyright infringement etc etc), and I won't get into that, but I feel like it's reeeal hard / perhaps even impossible to clearly label art vs non-art vs "human-created" vs whatever.

It's always going to be subjective and up to the person actually spending money to decide the value, just like art always has been. People also thought that the printing press and stencils would spell the end of "real art," but it didn't. We pay less for a print of a painting than the real thing, but we still value the print.

All that to say, for me, this is not worth $60. I understand the DnD branding and whatever, but I will not pay $60 for this. And I think this is how much of the discourse is going to go -- individuals deciding how much they value something, then creators adjusting accordingly.