WotC: 'Artists Must Refrain From Using AI Art Generation': EN World Tabletop RPG News & Reviews
WotC: 'Artists Must Refrain From Using AI Art Generation': EN World Tabletop RPG News & Reviews
After it was revealed this week that one of the artists for Bigby Presents: Glory of the Giants used artificial intelligence as part of their process when creating some of the book's images, Wizards of the Coast has made a short statement via the D&D Beyond Twitter (X?) account. The statement.....
WotC to update artist guidelines moving forward.
Lory of the Giants wykorzystało sztuczną inteligencję w procesie tworzenia obrazu. Wspomnienie Wizards of the Coast na Twitterze jest pozytywnym krokiem w zademonstrowaniu ich reakcji na rozwój sztucznej inteligencji w branży artystycznej. Może to sygnalizować pogłębiającą się integrację sztucznej inteligencji, być może podobnej do ChatGPT, w dziedzinach kreatywnych.
1Bad policy imo.
-1Artists should be able to make a living with their art.
The fact that anyone in the world is able to do that is great, and we should be allowing for inroad for more people to enter into creative careers, not endorsing technology that aims to make them obsolete while profiting from their efforts.
0Why do these artists being replaced have a right to make money with their art? Why didn't all the other professions that became obsolete through technological advancement have the same right?
Were cars invented with the aim to make wagon makers obsolete? Were cameras invented to make realistic painters obsolete? They were both, just as all other things, invented because they do something that people want to happen in a way that is easier and more accessible.
Why don't I have a right to have easily affordable art in my works and express myself in a way that I couldn't because I can't afford to hire an expensive artist or learn to make it myself through many hours of work?
And how are other artists not profiting off of artist's efforts by learning from their art and replicating styles, techniques and other such things?
Why are you not instead angry at the fact that an artist even has to make money to do what they want? Why aren't you angry at the fact that anyone has to turn their passions into labour to survive?
If you don't feel like people should be able to make a living off of not working at all, how do you suppose humanity shall move forward in an environment in which anything is starting to be automated? Should be half technological advancement now and forever, fighting tooth and nail against progress? Or should we accept what is inevitable at this point and focus on creating a society in which the common person still has a place?
That all sounds really dramatic and escalating, but many people approach this problem from an emotional position. No one has the right to make money from anything they do. No constitution in the world grants such a right. Making money isn't considered a human need in general. What I do agree with is that artists should be able to live their life and make art. That's what you should desire and fight for.
0Based on my usage and understanding of AI art tools beyond simple Txt2Img prompting, I believe the future is artists combining more traditional painting techniques and compositional sensibilities with AI automation to speed up their workflow. Very similar to what Photoshop did to physical media at the advent of digital art.
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