D&D General DALL·E 3 does amazing D&D art

[M.T. Black]

I really appreciate the discussions above about the legal and ethical issues related to AI-generated art (and, by extension, to AI-generated text).

I think we are facing a really big technological inflection point, somewhat akin to the industrial revolution, which ultimately affected millions of jobs.

I was talking to a professor of game design last night, and he believe the legal issues around AI learning models will be resolved relatively soon. I note that Adobe and Getty, for example, have released good quality image generators using the art in their massive stock libraries. From their comments, they are 100% certain they have the legal right to use the images in this way. OpenAI are soon adding an "opt out" feature to allow you to exclude your images from their model. These issues will be resolved.

As far as the quandry over lost jobs, I'm sure an illustrator using these tools is going to do a much better job than someone with little artistic ability using these tools. Same with writers. Maybe I'm a little naive, but I'm hoping we can have a co-operative existence with the machines!

 

[Parmandur]

I really appreciate the discussions above about the legal and ethical issues related to AI-generated art (and, by extension, to AI-generated text).

I think we are facing a really big technological inflection point, somewhat akin to the industrial revolution, which ultimately affected millions of jobs.

I was talking to a professor of game design last night, and he believe the legal issues around AI learning models will be resolved relatively soon. I note that Adobe and Getty, for example, have released good quality image generators using the art in their massive stock libraries. From their comments, they are 100% certain they have the legal right to use the images in this way. OpenAI are soon adding an "opt out" feature to allow you to exclude your images from their model. These issues will be resolved.

As far as the quandry over lost jobs, I'm sure an illustrator using these tools is going to do a much better job than someone with little artistic ability using these tools. Same with writers. Maybe I'm a little naive, but I'm hoping we can have a co-operative existence with the machines!

I think a good analogy for what may go down is the effect that record players and radio had on traditional folk music and dancehalls.

 

[Parmandur]

Given how easy it was to generate some male goliaths, I was surprised by how much more challenging it was to get some decent females.

Yeah, same with Orc women who both look like women and Orcs.

 

[Parmandur]

Playing chess

 

[pukunui]

Yeah, same with Orc women who both look like women and Orcs.

Yes! I was trying to make a more D&D 5e orc woman with grey skin and tusky lower canines, but I just couldn't make it work. I can't show you the bizarre stuff it gave me as it's fallen off the bottom of my "recent" creations sidebar, but there were some that were clearly not women and others that had horns rather than tusky teeth, and some that had a ludicrous number of big teeth, and so on. (It also flatly refused to give me a full head-to-toe portrait no matter how I phrased it. I can't figure out why it will do it sometimes but not other times.)

 

[Parmandur]

Yes! I was trying to make a more D&D 5e orc woman with grey skin and tusky lower canines, but I just couldn't make it work. I can't show you the bizarre stuff it gave me as it's fallen off the bottom of my "recent" creations sidebar, but there were some that were clearly not women and others that had horns rather than tusky teeth, and some that had a ludicrous number of big teeth, and so on. (It also flatly refused to give me a full head-to-toe portrait no matter how I phrased it. I can't figure out why it will do it sometimes but not other times.)

Yeah, I've seen some weird stuff that I have not shared. I've managed to get pig-ish or Warhammer/Warcraft style Orc women down now, but getting consistent results to follow the 5E style guide is actually fairly hard.

 

[Clint_L]

My orcs and goblins are green anyway, so it's all good. The image above just made me think of Miss Piggy in green face.

 

[SakanaSensei]

Having fiddled with this a LOT since the thread was made, I’ve been most consistently happy with black and white results in the line art and woodcut styles. I think it does a significantly better (or at least more consistent) job when not having to deal with the color variable.

 

[Reynard]

Prompt: a swarm of flying red eyeballs dripping with ichor, flying through the dark streets of a fantastical city, a town guard holding a lantern is shocked and terrified

 

[pukunui]

@Reynard: Would you be willing to share the different art styles for these?

I don't get why "floating eyeballs dripping with ichor" is acceptable but "bare feet" is not.