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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ulorian - Agent of Chaos" data-source="post: 9462171" data-attributes="member: 16668">The attached post is actually a quite thoughtful think about how AI is used in RPGs. It's worth a read.They are against AI-generated art. I understand the gesture here, but I don't think it's feasible. People gonna be people, and will default to the easiest path. AI-generated art will get used; the horse is out of the barn. It might be ugly, but that is the way of humanity. Rail against it if you must, but I think a better approach is to understand its core first.. then work against it (again, if you must).AI-generated art is a thing.  It's easy, and (at the time of writing) makes acceptable, but not great, art. Acceptable for certain, but certainly not all, uses. Whether that thing supplants human-generated art is up to the humans to decide. If someone uses AI-generated art in their, say RPG product, to save a few bucks... joke's on them if they get fewer sales if folks turn against them for using AI-generated art or they lose sales because their art is crappier than their competitor's though.If you think what you do as an artist is worth protecting, make a case for yourself. Any industry that gets supplanted by a new technology (see car replacing horse & buggy, hitting two stones together replacing waiting for a lightning strike) has to deal with this. If you think that your random job, whose value is randomly determined by the particular point of social evolution your society exists in, has a value that should not be supplanted by an advancement in understanding or technology... let's hear your case. If your case isn't feasible... find something else to do.I fully understand that there are two sides to this story (trying, almost certainly futilely, to stave off angry mob reaction to this post). I understand that it sucks to have entered a career and become comfortable, and to have that yanked out from under you is awful and feels ridiculous that this has happened to you.I have been there and have that happened to me, and have had to put in work to change my career path. I'm still doing something I completely enjoy doing, but it was certainly not my first love. But you adapt. Welcome to planet earth. No one owes you a living. Make yourself useful. You live in a society with other human beings. You draw benefits from that. Part of being a member of society is contributing back to society.But...Human beings should support those that need help. I mean that is an absolute. Don't let anyone dangle.But...If you have a talent and a passion, and you can turn that into a living... AWESOME!!! If you can't... still awesome. It's something you can enjoy and others can enjoy vicariously. It makes the world go round. But if you can't make a living from it... it becomes a hobby. If you absolutely want to make this talent the way you make your living, the onus is on you to make that niche for yourself. If you can't create that niche... find something else to do.</blockquote>

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