D&D General AI Art for D&D: Experiments

[Lanefan]

You are failing to understand that the only people than can monetize it will be those megacorps.

For a very short period - maybe just a few years - this will be true, as only the megacorps will be able to afford the tech and personnel required to make and edit movie-length or series-length AI videos and have them be any good.

After that, the tech will become much more commonplace and the programs vastly easier to use (as has happened with every other major tech advance recently) and everyone can get in on the act. The issue then becomes distribution channels and-or internet control: who allows you to upload what and-or to view it.

 

[Reynard]

Maybe megacorps like Google or Microsoft will monetize it, but Disnsy and Paramount will die; They're nothing but useless middlemen now. There won't be any platforms; there will only be, as you said, "Chat, give me a 100 episode fantasy series about dragons and zombies"

I think you are underestimating the ability of companies to control access to compute.

 

[Reynard]

For a very short period - maybe just a few years - this will be true, as only the megacorps will be able to afford the tech and personnel required to make and edit movie-length or series-length AI videos and have them be any good.

After that, the tech will become much more commonplace and the programs vastly easier to use (as has happened with every other major tech advance recently) and everyone can get in on the act. The issue then becomes distribution channels and-or internet control: who allows you to upload what and-or to view it.

Compute is real.

 

[Bohandas]

Getting back to the real topic of the thread, is Call of Cthulhu AI art permitted? I have a whole bunch of pieces on Shub-Niggurath, Hastur, and Nyarlathotep

 

[Not a Decepticon]

I think it speaks for itself that this thread has 645 pages and ai slop still failed to produce a single good picture.

 

[Bohandas]

This is certainly a matter for another thread, this is a thread for experimenting with AI, but I don't think we're poorer by having potentially bad products that we can simply ignore. I didn't think the d20 glut was bad, actually. Not all of it was great, to say the least, but its existence didn't bother me anymore than the existence of Dumbledore-Harry lovestory fanfictions detracts from litterature.



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Eyebite, simplifying the task of sharing the loot since the good old days of Netheril.

This is excellent

 

[M.T. Black]

Getting back to the real topic of the thread, is Call of Cthulhu AI art permitted? I have a whole bunch of pieces on Shub-Niggurath, Hastur, and Nyarlathotep

Certainly - please share

 

[Thomas Shey]

Which means no new art or writing. Or music. Or acting.

Stagnation. Death.

I'm sorry, but that's just hyperbole, at least with ones that can be done without a support network. Plenty of people produce art, writing and music who don't make money at it. They might not do so as consistently as people who make a living at it, but art drives itself in many people.

 

[Thomas Shey]

"I don't know much about art, but I know what I like" is the most authentic statement about art criticism ever made. If you prefer the AI-gen music to most of the human-gen music, then that's what you like.

I'm not sure about the lifting "most" is doing there, but I do know that in any context where one viewed that music in isolation, I suspect probably most people who like its style would consider it good to excellent. And its clearly serving its makers purposes, which seem artistic in part in their own right.

And that's the conflict I have here. Even if parts of it are done with technological augmentation, isn't something made with artistic intent--art? If not, is synthesizer music not art?

But at the other end, if all you're doing is asking a few questions and a program does the rest--is that art?

I don't know.

 

[Scribe]

But at the other end, if all you're doing is asking a few questions and a program does the rest--is that art?

No, at best it's a remix, only without the direct touch of a human.

I don't think it will be great for vast segments of the population in developed countries.