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

[Crimson Longinus]

Also, at the point when human labour has been replaced with robots, who will be buying the products the robots make? Where will that money come from? Like sure, if we get some Star Trek style post scarcity scifi-socialistic utopia where people don't need to work for money, then I'm all for that, but given the current state of the world I doubt that's where we are heading.

 

[Micah Sweet]

That, BTW, is an interesting question. Because modern historians would say Augustus, but actual ancient Romans would probably say Julius Caesar. Not sure what a calculator would say though...

In practice, I've always figured it had to be Julius Caesar.

 

[Mistwell]

I don't think there is any indication at all that the intent is to produce writing or art in books generated with AI. They've repeatedly implied it's DM and Player tools, not a replacement for their artists and writers.

That said, I will buy things which are good and that I will use.

 

[Parmandur]

Socrates thought that literacy would ruin the youth of Athens.

It is worth noting that this was probably a joke, since Plato wrote it in a book. Plato had an overdeveloped sense of humor.

 

[ECMO3]

We should use at least one human artist to supervise and check, you know to count the number of fingers, the body proportions and that stuff.

I am with you on fingers, but WRT fantasy RPG art, I think AI is generally better than human artists when it comes to body proportions, especially on female humans/humanoids.

I think this is because LLMs are less likely to have sexist biases than human artists are.

 

[Clint_L]

It is worth noting that this was probably a joke, since Plato wrote it in a book. Plato had an overdeveloped sense of humor.

Socrates was not alone, and it was not just in Greece. Literacy has, in fact, often been treated as scary and dangerous. It was supposed that it would make youth unable to memorize key aspects of culture, and would expose them to dangerous ideas. It would make them lazy and unproductive (public education, same. Printing press, same.).

Hard to believe, I know. But change is scary, and the older generation always reacts with alarm and moral panic.

AI, like all technologies, raises legitimate questions. It is, and will continue, to change things in a fundamental way. Jobs, which means real lives, will be displaced. It might even be an existential threat (automobiles have turned out to be a potentially existential threat). I am not ignoring the challenges posed by AI, but I am very skeptical of the moralistic tone of the argument, especially from a lot of old folks like me.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

I think this is because LLMs are less likely to have sexist biases than human artists are.

Mate. The bots are literally trained on porn and anything remotely female they make will become sexualised and scantily clad. (Granted, the same is true for many human artists.) Then they censor their own creations as they accidentally created risque content even though no one asked for it. You can try to fight it with keywords, but the default is highly sexist. The biases in the training material go directly into the AI model, this is a big problem with a lot of AI stuff, and it is way bigger issue when AI is used to choose best job applications etc.

 

[mellored]

What does “better” mean in this context? More imaginative? More photo-realistic? More colours? Bigger? Smaller? More surreal? More valuable? More thought-provoking? More original?

Yes. And if not today, than soon enough.

And probably the most impactful. It can do it cheaper.

 

[Scribe]

I am with you on fingers, but WRT fantasy RPG art, I think AI is generally better than human artists when it comes to body proportions, especially on female humans/humanoids.

I think this is because LLMs are less likely to have sexist biases than human artists are.

Are you serious right now?!

It has 1000000000000000000000% of the "sexist biases" because it literally QUITE literally knows no better.

The only reason one cannot prove this with Dalle for example, is because the developers hard coded it to NOT serve it up, its generated, its there, and then the program checks its code and goes 'nah this is too accurate, too hot, we cannot show this'.

 

[Morrus]

And probably the most impactful. It can do it cheaper.

We are all well aware that AI slop is free.