WotC Would you buy WotC products produced or enhanced with AI?

[Morrus]

Of course, you can then take your favorite AI picture and present it to a real artist and ask them to create it in their own style. That's a great option if you can afford it.

Artist create. They don’t recreate. That’s what makes it art—the act of creation. Otherwise a photocopier is an artist.

 

[Scribe]

Google is worse than it was four years ago because they've been using AI for results. The direct AI results are frequently wrong. The thing with searches is that you have to already be knowledgable about the search to identify the errors. If you search for a lot of topics where the answer changes over time or context (programming, etc.) you'll see how how much it muddles incompatable things together.

As one doing a lot of medical research the last quarter, its actually wild how often the results are misleading or even completely (as in follow this advice and someone could die) wrong.

Always read the article.

 

[mamba]

I mean, LLMs aren't actually AI either, so I would personally like to clarify that LLM tools are what is objectionable, since "AI" does not actually exist

agreed, but they are certainly at least one step closer than a spellcheck so I would not lump those two together either way

 

[mamba]

AI is a series of calculations. You could do it on a calculator.

that is like saying if you flap your arms hard enough you can fly

 

[Incenjucar]

agreed, but they are certainly at least one step closer than a spellcheck so I would not lump those two together either way

I correct spellcheck and grammar tools all the time. :/

 

[mamba]

I correct spellcheck and grammar tools all the time. :/

so they both can be wrong and therefore they are both AI? Seems a weird criteria

 

[Incenjucar]

so they both can be wrong and therefore they are both AI? Seems a weird criteria

What?

Neither spellcheck nor GenAI are AI.

 

[Seramus]

Artist create. They don’t recreate. That’s what makes it art—the act of creation. Otherwise a photocopier is an artist.

Lots of artists are willing to look at an AI image as a guideline and create something similar in their own style. It's a great option taking advantage of both methods!

 

[Morrus]

Lots of artists are willing to look at an AI image as a guideline and create something similar in their own style. It's a great option taking advantage of both methods!

They don’t have much choice if that’s all they’re being asked to do. Then they’re just asked to tweak it. Then they’re just asked to recolour it. And then they’re not being asked at all. And that is how art dies.

In case it isn’t clear from my tone, this is not something we at EN Publishing do. We hire human artists to create art and we’re strongly ethically opposed to generative AI being used in that process. And on a personal level I will not buy or support products which do so.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

As a general thing, I don't think art will "die". That most of the market need, at some point, can be satisfied without human intervention, will never prevent anyone from designing something. It simply won't be a mass commercial endeavour (or maybe a PWYW model), but it could serve a niche market (much like there are still painters who paint landscapes in front of monuments to sell to tourists, despite most of them being satisfied with taking pictures on their smartphones), or they could just produce art for art's sake, without making a living from it, as a hobby. It can reduce the number of actor, but "dying" seems too extreme to consider. Also, there might be companies (like Enworld) that might bear the cost of using human-produced art for their customers, and catering to a market of consumers of human-produced art, like there are companies specializing in organic vegetables, despite most of the agricultural sector adopting industrial fertilizers.

Whether I'd buy a 100% ai-made product by WTC? I wonder. I'd have to determine whether the AI made by WotC is worth paying the price over what I could obtain by either running an LLM at home or what will be available through subscription models. There is a strong chance WotC won't be able to rival with the state of the art product, and the help an AI-designed product by their prompters wouldn't help me more than directly asking an LLM to assist me in my gamemastering task. So I most probably wouldn't buy a WotC made, 100% designed by AI, but not on the basis that it's made by AI but because there is a strong chance it would be published at a time where AI assistants are good enough to compete with the product they could sell. Unless they sell it really, really cheap.