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I'm really curious about the two Traveller-adjacent RPGs ... I guess one of them will be a Fantasy RPG, given that they're stating later that they'll be doing a new fantasy RPG, but that it will not be based on Legend. These statements always give me the feeling that Mongoose is pretty much the...

No, you don't get it, you're getting an ACTUAL VIRTUAL sword! Which is so much better than just some made-up sword! I mean it must be, if it costs money, right? Right?

Which leads to another concern both ethical and practical: Do we really want to keep spending enormous amounts of energy on creating AI images?

Okay, while I don't really know anything about the actual process of how a LLM AI assembles a text, by my understanding of the term "statistical", I would suspect that it doesn't infer conclusions. It asks "what would probably come next in this text" without connecting it to any real-world...

And you know on what the value and the price and labor are based? On implicit and explicit social contracts; they are not some ideal result of a context-free negotiation between a buyer and a seller, but are based and power, hierarchies and laws - which means that they are always already...

"Not getting it" is very different from a hallucination. It happens to people all the time, due to oversimplification, misreadings, differing core assumptions ... but whoever wrong a human might get things, if, for example, you give them a list of Star Trek episodes and ask them to write an...

I'd honestly be interested to see some good AI RPG art - because for now, I'm mainly looking at stuff thinking, "well, that looks like another ugly AI pic", not even knowing whether it's true or not. For example, if you would present this cover to me...

You might be Dieselpunk AI.

Well, if you unpack it, they said: "We used copyrighted material, but we are convinced that that doesn't violate copyright." So whether they admitted that they're violating copyright law or not depends on whether you consider what they did a violation of copyright. Them claiming that whatever...

Even (and especially) if a lot of people don't care, that's a good reason to find ways to regulate potentially un-ethical production methods. The less people care whether clothes are produced in sweatshops, the more we need legislation to outlaw such extreme forms of exploitation. (I'm not...

The difference is that the artist is a human being - they can choose to refuse your request or fulfill it, they can and have to take responsibility for their actions and, as human beings, have moral and legal rights applicable to their work.

Yes, exactly. A human is a person, and as such, we usually consider them to be an end in themselves. They have a moral and legal right to self-expression. We consider their expression as something they originate, even if they wouldn't have been able to create without many kinds of input. They...

Wait ... are you telling me that's why my external mouse just won't work? There's a difference?

Sorry, but to me that sounds like you're saying: "I'd like to put the burden of proof on the other side because it suits my argument better to do so." You wrote: So you're saying that caliming that AI art processing is fundamentally different from human art processing is "as much a claim as...

This is a weird position to take. The claim that would have to be proven is naturally that AI art processing is bascially the same as human art processing; because the idea that would be basically the same is based on the most flimsy evidence of a somewhat similar output. It's like saying: "A...

I don't quit get who the "original artist" would be in this context. If I'm plagiarising someones work using a brush and then make money of it, that might very well be a copyright violation. If I'm using a typwriter to reproduce The Lord of the Rings and then sell copies, that's certainly a...

That's probably a sticking point. As long as you consider AI a tool (as I would do), I'd say the acting party are the people using the AI as a tool (or selling it's use to others) - so they are using other artist's creating for commercial ends without permission or recompensation, which sounds...

I've followed this discussion (which is actually pretty informative, thank you everyone!) because I'm really not that knowledgeable about AI art, but very interested in getting an idea of how it works and what it implies ethically. My takeaway at this point, from a purely moral standpoint, is...

I hope support of this bundle means that enworld is pro-peace, pro-medical aid. Making it about being pro-Palestine (or pro-Israel) just plays in the hands of the extremists on both sides who want their opponents, well ... just gone. Sadly, that's what most of the "solidarity" seems to be about...

I'm not sure if "You can't do that anymore". While I'm not backing 13th Age 2nd (just not my kind of system), I'm usually more happy if people aren't trying to sell something to me with super-excited youtube videos every five minutes. Pelgrane Press are usually doing their thing, occassionally...