AP: Dungeons & Dragons tells illustrators to stop using AI to generate artwork for fantasy franchise
AP: Dungeons & Dragons tells illustrators to stop using AI to generate artwork for fantasy franchise
The Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game franchise says it won’t allow artists to use artificial intelligence technology to draw its cast of sorcerers, druids and other characters and scenery.
Inb4 the text of the next book is found to be partly generated as well.
Good luck stopping AI art! You're going to need it.
Could someone explain to me why AI art for DnD is such a bad thing? Doesn't AI make it so much easier for DMs to provide visuals for their campaigns?
The article is about an artist hired by Wizards using AI for paid work. AI work currently sits in a weord space with respect to copyright.
Wizards of the coast really like copyright and getting to enforce it.
In particular, only human- created content is currently eligible for copyright protection.
About a decade ago, there was a case over who owned the copyright of a bunch of selfies taken by macaques with a camera left lying out by a wildlife photographer. The US Copyright Office ultimately decided the images were public domain since they weren't created by a human.
Because of that, AI art isn't eligible for copyright protections.
If you make a picture book using stable diffusion and chatgpt, the only thing you can protect is the layout you did by hand of the public domain text and images on the page. Someone could sell a competing derivative work with their own original layout.
Homebrew? Yes!
Asking for payments? Fuck off
@RGB3x3 @TheTango it makes it easier but think of all the talented people who draw and actually create art. Their skills go unused and also the fact ai art uses other peoples art without their permission to learn and create. It’s not a simple answer and there are multiple reasons why ai art is frowned upon and disliked.
Ai doesn't use other's art any more than a real artist who's influenced by art does. It's just noise simply put.
That said, it's a downer artist aren't soon as needed, as much as they were, but such is the way of the world.
I'd rather have hundreds of thousands DMs have tools to create art, rather than a fraction of that actually being able to buy it.
Some jobs tend to die in as technology progresses, and quite frankly, that's ok.
This is particularly due to an artist using AI art for a source book they're publishing.
That's a problem for them because only human- created work is eligible for copyright protection; both animal-created art and AI art is inherently public domain. They want to control the IP in the source books, so they think it's a problem if people can legally just copy the images out of them.