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

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

That is why AI has brought nothing of interest or value, because anything it can do, a human can do better.

Ther is no point trying to pretend that generative AI doesn't deliver any value. There is a lot of value to be had from producing something that is worse than the best humans can do, but having it ready vastly faster and cheaper.

 

[MoonSong]

Ther is no point trying to pretend that generative AI doesn't deliver any value. There is a lot of value to be had from producing something that is worse than the best humans can do, but having it ready vastly faster and cheaper.

One art youutber once mentioned, a positive to genai is that it filters out cheapskates and stifflers.

 

[Lanefan]

Ther is no point trying to pretend that generative AI doesn't deliver any value. There is a lot of value to be had from producing something that is worse than the best humans can do, but having it ready vastly faster and cheaper.

And "worse than the best humans can do" can still very easily sail past the good enough to be good enough threshold for a lot of private use or quasi-private use purposes - such as enhancing one's D&D game. And it's free.

And that's what I worry will be lost if the hardline no-AI-ever types get their way.

 

[MoonSong]

And "worse than the best humans can do" can still very easily sail past the good enough to be good enough threshold for a lot of private use or quasi-private use purposes - such as enhancing one's D&D game. And it's free.

And that's what I worry will be lost if the hardline no-AI-ever types get their way.

You know that creative commons is a thing right? Also, plenty of people -including yours truly- actually gift custom art from time to time. Besides, these users might even try to do it themselves, perhaps even discovering a related side hobby in the process?

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

You know that creative commons is a thing right? Also, plenty of people -including yours truly- actually gift custom art from time to time. Besides, these users might even try to do it themselves, perhaps even discovering a related side hobby in the process?

I've discovered AI image generation as side new hobby. It's a lot of fun!

 

[Lanefan]

You know that creative commons is a thing right?

I've heard of it but have no real idea how it works.

I'm also of the mind that, unless proactively protected so as to be viewed by only specific individual people by invitation, the contents of the internet should be public domain to begin with.

Also, plenty of people -including yours truly- actually gift custom art from time to time.

Kudos for that!

Besides, these users might even try to do it themselves, perhaps even discovering a related side hobby in the process?

For art:

I already know my art talent ranks right up there with that of a half-cut brick. Add to that that I'm fussy when it comes to art (if I ever had someone do art on commission they'd be quite justified in strangling me after I sent it back for the 17th time for more fine-tuning and revision), and AI becomes the answer. It doesn't care if I try 1000 times to fine-tune it or revise it or whatever, the robot just keeps on keeping on and the "scattergun effect" means sooner or later it'll get it right.

For writing:

I can write OK prose* and half-decent poetry and lyrics, so I'd likely only use AI text as a time-saver if I was lazy and-or I needed something right now.

* - my not-always-intelligible posts here notwithstanding.

 

[Lanefan]

I've discovered AI image generation as side new hobby. It's a lot of fun!

If-when I update my tech (coming soon, I hope!) I also intend to dive into that.

 

[Faolyn]

I've heard of it but have no real idea how it works.

I'm also of the mind that, unless proactively protected so as to be viewed by only specific individual people by invitation, the contents of the internet should be public domain to begin with.

"I'm of the mind that, unless proactively protected, the contents of your wallet should be public domain to begin with."

It doesn't work that way.

I already know my art talent ranks right up there with that of a half-cut brick. Add to that that I'm fussy when it comes to art (if I ever had someone do art on commission they'd be quite justified in strangling me after I sent it back for the 17th time for more fine-tuning and revision), and AI becomes the answer. It doesn't care if I try 1000 times to fine-tune it or revise it or whatever, the robot just keeps on keeping on and the "scattergun effect" means sooner or later it'll get it right.

Or you could learn to let go of your need for perfection.

 

[Metroido]

....... And I know it provides things of value because it provides value to me.

It only provides value to you because you haven't actually looked at enough real art. Good Art. Genuine Art. Made by human beings. Thanks to the Internet you have the whole of Art History at your fingertips. You can look at more art than Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci ever saw in their lifetimes, and you're squandering it by looking at the emptiness of AI instead. AI is about as deep as a frisbee.

You have the richness of all the great art and illustration that's come before. It's inexhaustible. You're wasting it.

You have a veritable treasure trove of art and illustration before you. What's the old phrase? "Like pearls before swine."

 

[Lanefan]

"I'm of the mind that, unless proactively protected, the contents of your wallet should be public domain to begin with."

My wallet isn't on the internet.

It doesn't work that way.

Sadly, the capitalists and monetizers got to it and made the internet - and its contents - just another commodity.

Doesn't make it right.

Or you could learn to let go of your need for perfection.

And end up with something lesser? Then what would be the point of bothering in the first place?