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

[Older Beholder]

Arguing that it's not art without a human consciousness intentionally creating something is also a bad argument because it throws away the long history of found art and various happy accidents that have created both wonderful art and entire movements of art. See Jackson Pollock as just one example of many.

Jackson Pollock has nothing to do with happy accidents, you’re thinking of Bob Ross.
The action painting style of Abstract Expressionism was very much about the physicality of painting as human expression. Pollock’s style was very deliberate, it also evolved to the drippy technique he’s known for over time.

 

[HatWearingFool]

I think people talking about out how great AI will be for the masses sound a lot like people in the early internet days saying how the it would give everyone free access to unlimited knowledge and would usher in a golden age.

Instead we got more flat earthers, anti vaxxers, school shootings, propaganda, depression amoung youth, etc….

I suspect AI is just going to super charge that.

I find the fact that the term enshittification has reached the masses pretty telling. It used to just be a niche geek term but this week when I was forced to watch ads while playing a table too board game a few people mentioned it

It’s like that meme about how we all laughed when the Matrix movie said the 90’s was the peak of human society but now we look back and say huh, maybe they got it right.

 

[Reynard]

I think people talking about out how great AI will be for the masses sound a lot like people in the early internet days saying how the it would give everyone free access to unlimited knowledge and would usher in a golden age.

Instead we got more flat earthers, anti vaxxers, school shootings, propaganda, depression amoung youth, etc….

That isn't really an internet problem so much as a Social media problem. Or, as I like to call it, The Great Filter.

 

[Scribe]

the 90’s was the peak of human society

 

[HatWearingFool]

That isn't really an internet problem so much as a Social media problem. Or, as I like to call it, The Great Filter.

Same thing. Everyone said it would great, now you wouldn’t be beholden to a few gatekeepers. Information wants to be free. We’d all get the real truth from people on the ground no more spin.

This also reminds me of all the people that said smart phones and tablets would be great for education and if you weren’t immediately integrating them you were already behind. Now we are passing laws and rules to get them out of our schools here in Canada because they’ve been so disastrous to kids education and well being.

A friend of mine recently pointed out that now AI is being talked about exactly in the same way phones and tablets were. Like quote for quote it’s almost eerie. It will be interesting if in another generation we will once again passing lawd and rules to get it out of our schools.

 

[Scribe]

It will be interesting if in another generation we will once again passing lawd and rules to get it out of our schools.

I've yet to see anything saying that schooling, education, mental health, anything, has improved in our (I'm also Canadian) school system for decades now.

Maybe Private School has it better, but I wasnt in a position to pay for that when my son was young.

If my son has kids however, I'm paying to put them anywhere but Public schooling.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

I think people talking about out how great AI will be for the masses sound a lot like people in the early internet days saying how the it would give everyone free access to unlimited knowledge and would usher in a golden age.

Instead we got

Not instead, but besides. We did get troves of knowledge accessible at our fingertips. I can identify the 7th largest town of the Centrafrican Republic in seconds, a task that would have taken days before (by requiring me to wait for the public library to open on Monday, mostly). Meanwhile, I can read 100+ pages-long discussion on how Invisibility work in 5e, which would have been impossible. We're all better off for that (or we wouldn't be posting on this board and using the Internet at all). Some people are using it for more questionable (to us) endeavours, sure. Their choice. They were probably not watching scientific documentaries on TV before, nor reading the best books the printing press made widely available.

 

[HatWearingFool]

Not instead, but besides. We did get troves of knowledge accessible at our fingertips. I can identify the 7th largest town of the Centrafrican Republic in seconds, a task that would have taken days before (by requiring me to wait for the public library to open on Monday, mostly). Meanwhile, I can read 100+ pages-long discussion on how Invisibility work in 5e, which would have been impossible. We're all better off for that (or we wouldn't be posting on this board and using the Internet at all). Some people are using it for more questionable (to us) endeavours, sure. Their choice. They were probably not watching scientific documentaries on TV before, nor reading the best books the printing press made widely available.

Sure people weren’t watching scientific documentaries but we had eliminated some disease and been on the verge of a couple others and now that’s been reversed.

So was my access to 5e knowledge or 2 day Amazon shipping worth a massive rise in inequality, worse health outcomes, and less happiness, and increased loneliness's in the population?

I’d say no, the negatives seems to out weigh the benifits for most of western society. But I am happy it’s not all negative and will continue to access it while I can before it’s buried under ai slop or hidden away on a discord server.

 

[DragonLancer]

A couple pictures I was playing around with a week or two ago, trying to create some scenes with the same adventurers. One being chased by some wraithly figure and the second in the tavern afterwards counting out their spoils.

Both were basic ChatGPT.

 

[TorgoTheWhite]

Balance, balance. The same "tools" that force employees to always be on the job. If you deny the electric leash.. then someone else more attuned to it will out-compete you.