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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 9518718" data-attributes="member: 725">Says the person typing on a computer... How many 'jobs' were taken by computers and automation, many. Advances in technology changes jobs people do and how they do it. The printing press took a lot of 'jobs' of people transcribing books by hand, but would you rather live without printed books?Especially in online RPG pdf books people were already using a LOT of clipart, either from large corporate suppliers or from smaller shops, or even just using public domain art (stuff with expired copyrights). Thus already not paying artists for their art. Most players and DMs never even considered paying someone else to draw their characters/maps. Most just picked appropriate images from existing books or the Internet.I've been professionally trained to draw (for artistic and commercial purposes), I even liked to draw when I was a kid. These days when I draw something, it's sporadic, because the the time it takes vs the 'payout' is not worth it imho. I wouldn't want to do that for half a dozen characters/monsters! AI allows me to do more in less time, not taking anyone's job, because I wasn't going to pay for that in the first place.Also there's a misconception! There's (fine) art vs illustration. Illustration is the commercial 'mass production' side of things, and no offense to illustrators, it shows. It's not that weird, illustrators are trained to produce X in Y amount of time, because time=money. It's just like a carpenter, they produce work in the most efficient way possible. Sure there are exceptions, but they are few and far between... Almost everything related to pnp RPG 'art' in RPG products is illustrations.I didn't become an Illustrator, I work in IT (computers), for the last two decades I've been working on making IT jobs obsolete. And you know what, every time I make jobs obsolete, new jobs show up. It's only the IT people that refuse to learn new things that have a real problem. The last ~15 years I've been working on making my own IT job obsolete for each project as an IT contractor. And when I've done so, I'm happy to leave for the next job.Every time you behave like a donkey's behind, we'll create a bunch of new AI images, just to spite you and another budding artist dies one the vine... cackles evily Ahem... You're preaching to the wrong crowd, we've already made up our minds, in a very offensive way. If you did so in person, how do you think people would react...And if you think that people are now missing 'art' without a 'soul', I would argue that illustrations are already that and even if you disagree, people tend to prefer cheap (IKEA) furniture over 10x+ expensive custom made furniture. Why? Because most people can't afford custom work and many that do, don't even see the value in doing that.</blockquote>

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