DriveThruRPG's New AI-Content Filter

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DriveThruRPG, the largest online platform for the sale of TTRPG PDFs and print-on-demand titles, has added a new browsing option which allows customers to filter out AI-generated content.

By default AI content is set as viewable. The new setting allows you to choose between Handcrafted (no AI involved), Contains AI-Generated Content (part of the product is AI), and Creation Method Not Chosen By Publisher. The filter is found in the user account settings under Additional Preferences.

DTRPG's AI-Generated Content Policy (as of July 2023) requires sellers to indicate whether AI was used in the product, and will not accept "standalone artwork products that utilize AI-generated tools to make content." Additionally they will not accept "commercial content primarily written by AI language generators." However, titles partially created by AI are permitted.

Where a community content program (such as DMs Guild, Storyteller's Vault, Cypher System Creator, and so on), the AI policy is set by the publisher who owns the program.

Many TTRPG publishers, including Wizards of the Coast (although WotC's policy seem at odds with CEO Chris Cock's own statements), EN Publishing, Kobold Press, and more, have declared AI policies which exclude the use of AI art or text in their own products. WotC's previous communications director Greg Tito cited WotC's stance on AI as "..one of the major reasons I left. People above me just didn't understand that basic concept."

On the flip side, many artists are being accused on social media of using AI when they haven't, with people using any imperfection in an art piece as evidence of AI creation.

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I'm sad that Cities Without Number will be filtered for a lot of people since it says AI-Generated Content because the author said since he couldn't verify 100% the art he bought from Adobe Stock wasn't using AI (even with AI filtered out), he decided to stay on the safe side and mark his product as using AI.
As an aside, I hate reviews like this. As a publisher, we are at the mercy of people leaving reviews, and I feel for Kevin to get one like this, because it's not about the actual quality of the book at all, but the fault of the post office.

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Now if they could just finish updating their website and improve the UI . . . this might become a truly useful filter!
Looking at their "new and improved" UI, I'd prefer them not updating it at all.
I'm sad that Cities Without Number will be filtered for a lot of people since it says AI-Generated Content because the author said since he couldn't verify 100% the art he bought from Adobe Stock wasn't using AI (even with AI filtered out), he decided to stay on the safe side and mark his product as using AI.
The filter could be somewhat more granular. I have more tolerance for people using AI art like they use stock art than products where the AI generated content IS the product, like battlemaps or modules with AI generated maps (and who knows, maybe descriptions, too).
 





As an aside, I hate reviews like this. As a publisher, we are at the mercy of people leaving reviews, and I feel for Kevin to get one like this, because it's not about the actual quality of the book at all, but the fault of the post office.

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I feel like people who leave those sorts of reviews need to lose their ability to post comments online. Amazon is overrun with this nonsense.
 


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