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Yep. But I want moar!!!! We have a number of TPPs taking the 5e system in new directions. This is giving us a smorgasbord of options to choose from. I give WoTC kudos for being true to their word, but most of the innovation in the 5e space is now happening elsewhere. I suspect they may be a...

I'm hoping Morrus is planning a book of downtime activities, strongholds, and domain level activities for A5E at some point. They are doing one on animal companions, so it's not beyond the realm of possibility.

This does seem to be a far more intentional document than the 5.1 SRD. WoTC have thought carefully about what should be included and what shouldn't. Some gaps can be filled from the 5.1 SRD, so no great loss there. The lack of Bastion rules is sad considering I was interested to see what other...

This is my impression too. Those with established skills in a domain get better results from an AI than a newcomer. This hold true for image, text, and code generation at least. It's partly because those with subject matter expertise create more precise prompts. And it's partly because they...

That was my point earlier. I think it'll take several years for the legal system to sort out all the implications. But in the meantime, most publishers will continue to enforce a no-AI policy to reduce potential legal risk. It's not necessarily because they are implacably opposed to the...

This is also misleading. You are correct that the material in the model isn't a copy of the source material. Instead, it is a representation of the data in the same way a map is a representation of some real world relationships between places. Like a map, there is a process of selection and...

This is absolutely true. And this is where the silicon valley ideology matters. Dotcom neoliberalism is all about destroying existing power structures that protect people against exploitation. That's a consistent pattern. It's why Amazon and Google are so hostile to unions. It's why Peter Thiel...

No...it doesn't make a copy. This statement is factually incorrect. Models catalogue information (kinda like metadata) about the material in the training set. It learns the characteristics or patterns present in the training set. In supervised learning, labels are added to help the model...

I think the moral argument that artists deserve to be paid for their labor is reasonable. The problem is that our legacy intellectual property laws are not a good fit for these new technologies. I am cautiously optimistic that a reasonable compromise can be found. But I think it may take a...

When you mention that your work was discovered in the LAION-5B data set, how did you discover this? Most of the services that allow you to check whether any of your images were used to train the data set (e.g. https://haveibeentrained.com/ and https://knn5.laion.ai/) do not check whether the...

I suspect the truth lies somewhere in the middle. AI models are trained on material from the Internet, much of which is under copyright. However, it does not COPY these materials but rather draws statistical inferences from them. The models do not contain the original data. But...at the same...

How about a character for the Humblewood campaign setting?

An elven druid and her friend...

Not for many years. Farmer is hit or miss. I loved the World of the Tiers series as a teenager, but they don't stand up so well so many years later. They did serve as an inspiration for Zelazny's Amber series though. The Riverworld series is still great..

I've been messing around with a black and white style for NPC illustrations. Here are some images of a major villain in my game (spoiler: she's a vampire hiding in plain sight within the royal house...)