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<blockquote data-quote="LesserThan" data-source="post: 9314508" data-attributes="member: 7045327">There is really no difference when you are not paying for it. Human nor machine makes money from it.See if you can follow me here in this convoluted example.You are able to find an artist that can draw a sketch 3x3 and they want $500 for it.Alternately, you could go to Kinkos and photocopy a color copy of some fantasy magazine cover for a similar image for $1. You did not buy the magazine, just grabbed it near the copy booth.Either way you will cut the image out and paste it to your character sheet.No artist nor AI got paid, but you still got your &quot;character portrait&quot;.This sort of thing happened during T$R when there was portrait spots on the sheets, and it ruffled some feathers, but people accepted that for non-commercial use it was going to happen. Kinkos quit of course. But that is how people had art other than stick figures of their characters before online stock image archives etc.AI DM will likely do this, but every player should not be expected to have to go to DeiantArt or Fivver and pay some diva artist more than they are worth for throw away art, since a TPK is all it takes to make that character art useless.Artists are not &quot;entitled&quot; to have their works bought. They chose them, and unless commissioned for an agreed upon price, the go hungry. Starving artist anyone?So for people unwilling to pay because they do not think the price is worth it, they are equally unwilling to pay a human or an unfeeling machine, thus they are equal.You want to know you will get paid for your efforts, get a job at McDonalds in California, where the law now requires $20 per hour be paid to fast food employees. That is almost triple the nations minimum wage requirement of $7.??.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LesserThan, post: 9314508, member: 7045327"] There is really no difference when you are not paying for it. Human nor machine makes money from it. See if you can follow me here in this convoluted example. You are able to find an artist that can draw a sketch 3x3 and they want $500 for it. Alternately, you could go to Kinkos and photocopy a color copy of some fantasy magazine cover for a similar image for $1. You did not buy the magazine, just grabbed it near the copy booth. Either way you will cut the image out and paste it to your character sheet. No artist nor AI got paid, but you still got your "character portrait". This sort of thing happened during T$R when there was portrait spots on the sheets, and it ruffled some feathers, but people accepted that for non-commercial use it was going to happen. Kinkos quit of course. But that is how people had art other than stick figures of their characters before online stock image archives etc. AI DM will likely do this, but every player should not be expected to have to go to DeiantArt or Fivver and pay some diva artist more than they are worth for throw away art, since a TPK is all it takes to make that character art useless. Artists are not "entitled" to have their works bought. They chose them, and unless commissioned for an agreed upon price, the go hungry. Starving artist anyone? So for people unwilling to pay because they do not think the price is worth it, they are equally unwilling to pay a human or an unfeeling machine, thus they are equal. You want to know you will get paid for your efforts, get a job at McDonalds in California, where the law now requires $20 per hour be paid to fast food employees. That is almost triple the nations minimum wage requirement of $7.??. [/QUOTE]

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