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Yes, and engaging on such things has a high 'cost' as well. If you have to do it, its like having to re-edit or effectively re-write the entire work again. Now years ago, I was asked to eyeball one translation and, it was immediately clear to me that a work was done by two translators that...

There might also be 'opportunity cost' factors as well, where accommodating a different system of publishing (which would itself be cost effective) creates additional overhead support costs. A lot of company management teams still view foreign sales as 'found money.'

Very nice to see there are multiple options. I think very, very relevant to RPGs are these: The creator's own personal reputation. The creator's fulfillment history with other crowdfunding projects. While both of these have a lower score (to date) than a poorly written description, they are...

I agree, however the impact of AI advancements far, far outreach issues in this particular market space on their potential, devastating impact. It isn't merely another technology, but one that transforms virtually all other technologies. The creator impact is just one in a long bullet list of...

It is worth clicking through to the Marc Andreessen as well.

After watching a review of that set, it makes me think they should have put out an massive extension to Return to the Keep on the Borderlands that was a part of it.

Unfortunately, to get what you want to get, you need a top end that lives and breathes the product. Remember the 40th anniversary of Microsoft Word last year? Yeah, neither did I until I went looking for it. Microsoft only 'lives and breaths' Windows, and even then the breathing is pretty shallow.

It also has a great potential for destruction in the hands of less talented bad actors. I can appreciate your optimism in that I think AI could do a lot of good, but there's just too much potential for bad in combining it with old school deception and other types of programming (ie what bad...

There are people that believe in those things, despite no rational evidence existing to support it. About 2 in 10 Americans believe in witchcraft.

Nobody should believe in the existence of Bigfoot or Nessie now, right? The fact that a tool is open sourced does not mean the functions will be generally understood. Even when tools are made consumer friendly (and free), you are making an assumption that user literacy will improve. "Station...

Predictive analysis is one major consideration in a business in which you have a lot of moving parts and moving your milestones can have dire results. Also, consider that anyone that is a seasoned professional on the content side is going to be more aware of how new, streamlining tools can...

I don't think the "somebody else did it" because IP protections typically includes distribution.

Not surprising though. Social media companies make money off of other people's effort.

Digital photography is sort of its own creative space with its own foibles. It is something I think of when applying creative filters. But consider also, the styles of various digital artists just in the RPG market, such as Erol Otus or Tony DiTerlizzi. As it is now, you can request certain AI...

An AI can 'consume' an image down to the individual pixel, including information that can be a challenge to see and compare with the naked eye, as well as any meta data associated with the file. While the 'magic' of AI doesn't really happen at the file level, it is already significant. The...

That's pretty much my point when you were asking for something more. Our present federal laws could really use some work as they for the most part, represent where we were in the late 90s.

That's not proactive though, but still an after the fact penalty if you can (reasonably) prove it. New laws that recognize the specific issues would certainly help extend protections that currently exist. But even that's going to be tough going.

Ideally, there are proactive protections for this among violations of (a great many) rights, but I don't think there's an easy solution. What would such a solution look like?

The controls though, specify legal applications. Controlling the tech is even more complicated. The position of the copyright office that AI art is not protected by copyright is based on AI not being a person. That in itself is a protection. If say, a client comes to me and says 'create an...

But we aren't just fine. There isn't a day that goes by in which some technology that maintains vital information or, manages some critical business, is hacked. That's the result of pushing out new tech without any consideration of security first (except in the case in which its mandated by...