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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 9233967" data-attributes="member: 7030563">I need it, I benefit.It is not souless at all and as I noted earlier art itself is in the eye of the beholder.Also it is not the mega corps that are going to be hurt by bans on AI artwork, the people who are going to be hurt the most are small 3rd party creators.  I know several authors who write 3rd party adventures for 5E and they use AI art extensively in their products.  These are the people you will be hurting the most - small places selling pdfs at $4 a copy that can't afford to hire a professional artist.Whether artists are programmers are making money off of it will depend highly on how you define their jobs.  There will be people making money off of AI art and I would call them artists.  Likewise IT has dramatically increased demand for programmers and this is not slowing down but rather accelerating even though stack overflow is being used to write some 70% of code already.The difference is coders today do things differently than they did even 5 or 10 years ago, and coders from that era did things differently than the guys writing in C or Fortran did before them.Saying AI is going to replace programmers is no different than going back to 1980 and saying high-level languages like For-Tran are going to replace programmers because no one will need to learn machine language any more and the programmers who invested in learning machine language from the 60s-80s will be out of a job.  Well maybe those people did lose thier job, but far more jobs were created in the programming field.It is a huge benefit and it will spawn for more jobs for far more programmers and more artists.Propaganda was around and effective long before AI or computers existed.  People are only becoming "aware" now because of technology.AI can fight and quash propaganda as easily as it can forward it.</blockquote>

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