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I just finished watching Boss, with Kelsey Grammer as the mayor of Chicago. It was pretty good, obviously the idea that an American politician could be corrupt is wildly improbable, but he is effective, and it's well acted and produced. It's a shame they didn't get to make more of it, there were...

I guess I can imagine someone whose brain works differently to mine writing a complete poem entirely in their head and then transcribing it afterwards as a separate act, albeit in that case the writing (creating) process happened already. But thinking up an idea of a picture isn't the same...

This only makes sense though if you get a fully-formed idea in your head of a poem, a piece of music, or a picture, and then the implementation part is simply the act of transcribing that defined thing into an external medium. That's certainly not how it works for me. When I sit down to write...

This is absolutely false. The implementation is everything. What creative things do you do? In addition to playing/running RPGs I also paint miniatures and write poems, and I have previously written, produced, art directed, and published two RPG books. The implementation is the creative part.

Well no, time is linear. The only verisimilitudinous explanation is that the relevant knowledge spontaneously appears in the character's brain.

I don't think you can separate the idea from the execution like that. If you come up with a cool rhyme, you thought up and put together every bit of that rhyme. If you come up with an idea for a cool picture, there are a billion data points in the implementation of that idea that you haven't...

I commissioned dozens of art pieces from the same professional RPG artist, Storn Cook, for two RPG books I published. Maybe my experience is different to other people's, but the way I approached that was absolutely NOT 'here is a complete description of what I want you to draw, like sheet...

Yes. You're telling me this would-be creator has no ability to be creative, no ability to problem solve, no ability to collaborate, no ability to make others interested in their work, and no money. I'm not clear what value a work by such a person could possibly have.

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First post so I'm sure you're on the level but here are some options you missed: No art Art drawn by you Art drawn by a friend or playtester Art that isn't art (e.g. photos) Art funded by you Art funded by a kickstarter Art funded by making something smaller first Don't publish

AI discussion being shunted into its own forum

The people who think AI art is interchangeable with real art don't know how to make (or appreciate) real art. The people who think AI writing is interchangeable with good writing don't know how to write.

I self-published a game 15 years ago and commissioned a load of real art for it from a professional RPG artist (Storn Cook). It wasn't that difficult.

The point of the position against AI is that there are more things in the world than venal and hollow self-interest

That's wonderfully elegant.