D&D General DMs Guild and DriveThruRPG ban AI written works, requires labels for AI generated art

[Staffan]

That's where we disagree pretty strongly. Which is cool. We are allowed to disagree.

One way I thought of that could (probably will) manage to make generative AI more legal and even less ethical is when all the image storage service (iPhoto, Deviant, whatever) add clauses to their TOS that the owners of the pictures allow the company to use their images for training AI. I bet that is coming.

DeviantArt already tried. It was somewhat controversial.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

DeviantArt already tried. It was somewhat controversial.

I am shocked, shocked that DeviantArt would make ill-advised decisions.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I am shocked, shocked that DeviantArt would make ill-advised decisions.

Well, not that shocked.

 

[Scribe]

I am shocked, shocked that DeviantArt would make ill-advised decisions.

I liked the mention of it being from the same wheelhouse as crypto and NFTs.

I wish it was like NFTs honestly..

 

[Reynard]

I liked the mention of it being from the same wheelhouse as crypto and NFTs.

I wish it was like NFTs honestly..

I think folks that just dismiss generative AI as a fad are going to be surprised and not in a good way.

 

[Scribe]

I think folks that just dismiss generative AI as a fad are going to be surprised and not in a good way.

Yeah, its not. Its going to be far more damaging, and have a far longer reach for sure. Eventually it will be part of anything connected to a device.

 

[J.Quondam]

Yeah, its not. Its going to be far more damaging, and have a far longer reach for sure. Eventually it will be part of anything connected to a device.

Great, an IoT connected refrigerator that chews me out for drinking straight out of the carton while it huffily tries but fails to add "Milk" to the cloud-based shopping list because it's just been jacked for ransom by Russain hackers, which means our autonomous grocery drone delivery will be late so I'll have to choke down my Lucky Charms dry tomorrow morning.

God, what bracing times are on the horizon!

 

[Scribe]

Great, an IoT connected refrigerator that chews me out for drinking straight out of the carton while it huffily tries but fails to add "Milk" to the cloud-based shopping list because it's just been jacked for ransom by Russain hackers, which means our autonomous grocery drone delivery will be late so I'll have to choke down my Lucky Charms dry tomorrow morning.

God, what bracing times are on the horizon!

I'm reminded of the time a friend asked me if what I had against cell phones was the convenience.

(its actually that we are tracked and available as long as its on us...but whatever)

 

[Charlaquin]

I think folks that just dismiss generative AI as a fad are going to be surprised and not in a good way.

I think this is true, but so are the people who think we’re going to get fully AI-produced content that’s indistinguishable from human-produced content. Despite being extremely powerful tools, these algorithms are not, in fact, intelligent, and will always require a human to go over whatever they produce for quality control purposes.

That won’t stop AI from causing disastrous amounts of job losses. We’ll just also see a dramatic drop in the quality of most content as AI start generating more of it.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The people who think generative AI will be able to create creative works comparable to what humans can create don't tend to be people who've made their living doing creative work.I believe they're often underestimating that this work is harder than it appears, when done right.