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

[Scribe]

Do something for 10000 hours and you will be good at it, talent or not

It's finding the 10K hours that is the problem.

 

[Metroido]

I still don't get the argument.

I readily accept that some humans are doing a better job at making a drawing for me than the current AI.
On the other hand, why would I need that high-quality level?

I am all the time settling for an average-quality, cost-effective, and especially quicker solution.

• I am eating at regular neighbourhood restaurants more often than I eat at 3-starred Michelin restaurants (cheaper, easier to get to) ;
• I am only having a few bespoke suits (It takes 2 monthes to have a shirt done by a shirtmaker, often 3+ months to get pants and jacket tailor-made, while one can get one off-the-shelf readily for a tenth of the price) ;
• My friends and I are playing RPGs together despite none of us being Matt Mercer (less expensive to take turn GM'ing than to hire him)...

I don't think I find value in restaurants, ready-to-wear clothes and amateur GMing because I haven't seen enough of Gagnaire, Cifonelli, Charvet and Mercer... There is no reason to reach for the best available solution in ANY field, unless you're rich and especially interested in having the best thing. LLMs have an advantage in producing their result, even if it rates lower than the best humanity can do, much less expensively and much more quickly that it would take a human. Much like industrial sauces and machine-made clothes: they are an OK-ish alternative, most of the time satisfying even if not great.

If I need an elf picture to illustrate my character sheet or campaign journal, I don't need to hire John Howe. While it's obviously an option, I'll have an inferior, but usable, result before the contract with him would be drafted. Saying that no value can be derived except by having the best solution is obviously false.

There's your problem. Why does it need to be custom? Why can't you just buy a John Howe art book and use the drawings or paintings he already made? It costs like $20 for a book with hundreds of drawings and paintings. Even less for an ebook.

 

[Metroido]

It's finding the 10K hours that is the problem.

You'd be surprised. 30-60 minutes a day can do wonders.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

There's your problem. Why does it need to be custom?

Because that's what I am looking for. It's not a problem, any more than wanting ice cream over cake is a problem.

The need to be fulfilled isn't "any existing picture" (in which case, there are enough museums to spend a lifetime, available for free), it's "something representing what I have in my mind/that happened in my campaign/a piece of code that does what I need with a function name I decide... (and so on), not someone else's".

 

[Faolyn]

You'd be surprised. 30-60 minutes a day can do wonders.

I was just drawing while watching a show, for instance.

 

[mamba]

It's finding the 10K hours that is the problem.

if it were easy everyone would be great at something Tennis players, violinists, get there by about age 20...

 

[Metroido]

Because that's what I am looking for. It's not a problem, any more than wanting ice cream over cake is a problem.

The need to be fulfilled isn't "any existing picture" (in which case, there are enough museums to spend a lifetime, available for free), it's "something representing what I have in my mind/that happened in my campaign/a piece of code that does what I need with a function name I decide... (and so on), not someone else's".

Yet you're stealing someone else's work and means to a livelihood in order to meet that need.

 

[Scribe]

You'd be surprised. 30-60 minutes a day can do wonders.

By the time I get to 30-60 (sixty!) minutes where I've got some actual peace?

I'm ready for the sweet caress of oblivion to take me and go to sleep.

 

[Sorcerers Apprentice]

What's the old phrase? "Like pearls before swine."

That's an appropriate phrase to describe how some people respond to this wonderful new technology.

 

[briggart]

You know the more you do something, the more you improve, right?

Have you ever used a calculator?