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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9679366" data-attributes="member: 18">Then don't buy from them? Do they lie about it or do they admit it? You can't buy from suppliers who aren't upfront - that's true in any business. Suppliers who lie or mislead or won't provide details on their product or its provenance are an absolute menace. You don't buy meat from the guy who won't tell whether it's cow or horse, for god's sake lol.Use PD art if you can't trust them.If all else fails, and you do think there's AI art in among the stock art, don't use the stuff you're suspicious of in your work (it's usually fairly easy to tell by it being wildly more detailed than other art in the price bracket), and apologise to people who bought your work if it turns out you did, and don't work with that supplier again.I don't think that's true at all re: the sort of digital artists who often work on TTRPGs. Do you mean people who make generic stock art specifically?Oh and you think claiming its &quot;classism&quot; and &quot;unethical&quot; to expect you to do the same work as thousands of other solo or small-group RPG creators is helping? Because otherwise, what's your point? Anyone can do what I'm suggesting, there's no skill or training or even experience required - claiming that's the job of a &quot;professional art director&quot; is like claiming a person who writes emails sometimes as part of their job is a &quot;professional communications manager&quot;!Again, re: saleable, if you think AI art makes a product more saleable, either you have a very specific market (again, likely 45+ and with weirdly high expectations re: the art in an indie solo publication), or you're in for a nasty surprise.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9679366, member: 18"] Then don't buy from them? Do they lie about it or do they admit it? You can't buy from suppliers who aren't upfront - that's true in any business. Suppliers who lie or mislead or won't provide details on their product or its provenance are an absolute menace. You don't buy meat from the guy who won't tell whether it's cow or horse, for god's sake lol. Use PD art if you can't trust them. If all else fails, and you do think there's AI art in among the stock art, don't use the stuff you're suspicious of in your work (it's usually fairly easy to tell by it being [I]wildly[/I] more detailed than other art in the price bracket), and apologise to people who bought your work if it turns out you did, and don't work with that supplier again. I don't think that's true at all re: the sort of digital artists who often work on TTRPGs. Do you mean people who make generic stock art specifically? Oh and you think claiming its "classism" and "unethical" to expect you to do the same work as thousands of other solo or small-group RPG creators is helping? Because otherwise, what's your point? Anyone can do what I'm suggesting, there's no skill or training or even experience required - claiming that's the job of a "professional art director" is like claiming a person who writes emails sometimes as part of their job is a "professional communications manager"! Again, re: saleable, if you think AI art makes a product more saleable, either you have a very specific market (again, likely 45+ and with weirdly high expectations re: the art in an indie solo publication), or you're in for a nasty surprise. [/QUOTE]

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