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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 9647463" data-attributes="member: 18182">I'm excited for your long gestating project to finally come to light . . .But I'm one who won't be backing if AI generated art is used in the book. It's not that YOU are stealing an artist's work, it's that you would be participating in a technology that is based on scraping artists work without their knowledge, permission, or compensation. Can't respect or support that mate.If you launch with an AI-free version, blank or sketch, I'll probably back. If you work on raising funds to fund more human-generated art as Steampunkette did, I'll probably back. But either way, if the main product uses AI-art, even with alternative versions, I'll be hesitant.I understand the position you feel you are in, but . . . you are not "backed into a corner" on this. That's just a way to justify participating in an unethical industry, the use of AI-generated art.You have options. You could simply use less art. You could scale back the project, start with something smaller. You could delay the project or extend your timeline.If you go forward using AI-generated art, will you hit your funding goal? Hard to say, the AI-slop project [USER=83242]@dave2008[/USER] linked to seems to be funding. There are a lot of us highly opposed to the use of AI-generated art, but there are also those who will overlook it's use. It seems the smaller you are, the less of a problem it might present. Big companies like WotC and Paizo simply cannot get away with it. It certainly won't be a good way to launch a career in RPG production. Is "God Rules" a one-and-done? Or is this hopefully the beginning of Upper Krust Game Studios?Good luck, I hope I can back the project when it launches.</blockquote>

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