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  1. pawsplay

    AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

    Eventually, the AI centers will have to start hiring humans to create more training data, since training an AI produced data has well documented problems. The thing eats its own tail.
  2. pawsplay

    AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

    Cyc still exists, apparently.
  3. pawsplay

    AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

    I am a publisher of games. I am a former computer science student. I have been following the AI story since the mid 1980s, like the Cyc project. I have provided level 3 tech support at a broadband Internet provider. I briefly minored in philosophy, before I had to drop it do to course...
  4. pawsplay

    AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

    It is not at all a given that LLMs will continue to exist and improve, and that qualitative evolution is possible. LLMs are just one kind of "artificial intelligence" that has been studied and is being developed. They have certainly yielded some interesting results, and there may be applications...
  5. pawsplay

    AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

    AI has the same limitation as Wikipedia, in that is limited to referring to human (possibly dishonest) sources, but AI has the additional limitations that it doesn't know anything, and even if it did, truth isn't computationally possible with modern or near-future technology.
  6. pawsplay

    AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

    Also, a true fact and a convincing lie are equally "successful" from an algorithmic standpoint.
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    Nimble expansion

    Somehow I missed this whole phenomenon, but I encountered this game at the store yesterday. I snapped it up immediately.
  8. pawsplay

    AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

    There are different kinds of taste leaders. There are people out there who have strong opinions about the McDonald's menu. If you think there's no such thing as a good generic elf ranger illustration versus a bad one, perhaps that argument holds. But, while people might have different...
  9. pawsplay

    AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

    Not everyone recognizes artistic quality, but that's why taste leaders exist. If no one is really looking at quality, eventually, the quality will degrade to where most people will notice it.
  10. pawsplay

    AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

    Vocabulary check: generative AI doesn't produce art, it produces pictures and illustrations and text. Art requires some kind of human motivation. Even if it's just curating random AI slop and saying something through organization.
  11. pawsplay

    AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

    Ah, but Wikimedia Commons is actually chock full of free media.
  12. pawsplay

    AI/LLMs AI art bans are going to ruin small 3rd party creators

    How is a ban on something I don't use in my business going to ruin me? AI is pretty interesting, and LLMs have made a big splash lately, but let's be clear. As it stands now, AI is not an acceptable substitute for human labor, aside from any legal or moral issues that might arise. From a...
  13. pawsplay

    HARP second edition

    If you're thinking HARP might be in a "legacy" status I guess there is some evidence of that.
  14. pawsplay

    D&D 5E (2024) Cleave+GWM Feat

    Cleave says you can make an attack roll, not an Attack action, and it specifies it can only happen once per turn (otherwise it could trigger itself). Attack actions can trigger Cleave, but the extra attack granted by Cleave is not an action of any kind.
  15. pawsplay

    HARP second edition

    On the official forums, they told me Rolemaster Unified looks the way it does because they can't justify an art budget, so "successful" requires some qualification.
  16. pawsplay

    Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized

    Bigotry: I am happy I am harming and/or exploiting you. Unconscious racism: I am not harming and/or exploiting you! Systemic racism: I just work here.
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    Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized

    Why do publishers so often fail Bioware-level alignment checks? 1. Yes, I would love to license this property from Sith Publishing, to publish a re-mastered edition of Puppy-Kicking Racists are the Heroes. 2. No, I'm not interested in your license deal, I serve the Jedi and the Republic.
  18. pawsplay

    When and where did you learn about Greek/roman and others mythology?

    When I was 12, I got a hold of a copy of Edith Hamilton's mythology and devoured it.
  19. pawsplay

    D&D General Unprofessional spoilers: it's not like it was hard to figure out but still...

    It's been forty years. We all know Strahd is John Travolta playing Dracula, ok? There's even a boardgame.
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    D&D General Thoughts about Purple Dragon Knights

    If it only occurred in the last few years, that's kind of an "A guy named Otto Ocatvius ends up with eight arms? What are the odds?" kind of moment.
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