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<blockquote data-quote="Oligopsony" data-source="post: 9081785" data-attributes="member: 56314">IMO, the most interesting uses of AI art aren't going to be in the pdfs you buy from DriveThruRPG, they're going to be from bots on Discord. Once the compute is cheap enough and the relevant training automatable enough - and I don't think we're that far from either - you'll have a bot that does some custom training on the world, the main characters, and maybe the group's artistic preferences, and you'll have images in real time generated to illustrate the happenings of the fiction. If there's a battlemap or a dungeon map or the like and you're moving your little dudes around there, it'll use it for blocking once it's been through a few improvement cycles. Some GMs who use this will accept some kind of default fantasy factory settings, while others will spend countless hours fiddling with it in the way there are GMs who endlessly fiddle with any other aspect of the game.The first uses of a new medium are almost always imitations of what existed before. The first photographs were just imitating what traditional portraiture did, and the first movies were basically filmed plays. But people quickly got excited about the things you couldn't do with previous media. The photograph of your spouse on your desk could have been done by a traditional painter, but the photo of the cool bug you found on the street and texted them couldn't.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oligopsony, post: 9081785, member: 56314"] IMO, the most interesting uses of AI art aren't going to be in the pdfs you buy from DriveThruRPG, they're going to be from bots on Discord. Once the compute is cheap enough and the relevant training automatable enough - and I don't think we're that far from either - you'll have a bot that does some custom training on the world, the main characters, and maybe the group's artistic preferences, and you'll have images in real time generated to illustrate the happenings of the fiction. If there's a battlemap or a dungeon map or the like and you're moving your little dudes around there, it'll use it for blocking once it's been through a few improvement cycles. Some GMs who use this will accept some kind of default fantasy factory settings, while others will spend countless hours fiddling with it in the way there are GMs who endlessly fiddle with any other aspect of the game. The first uses of a new medium are almost always imitations of what existed before. The first photographs were just imitating what traditional portraiture did, and the first movies were basically filmed plays. But people quickly got excited about the things you [I]couldn't[/I] do with previous media. The photograph of your spouse on your desk could have been done by a traditional painter, but the photo of the cool bug you found on the street and texted them couldn't. [/QUOTE]

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