WotC deserves all of the crap they get for this, but also, this makes me angry because the work, both of the other artists whose work is featured in the book, as well as the developers and designsers, are being overshadowed by THIS story.
https://gizmodo.com/dnd-ai-art-bigbys-giants-book-artist-generators-wotc-1850710496
nostr:npub1ztkkp35jykmfywgxm27g46gxvzycygpvqqr6q3jn0nrnh2x0sq2qtglanu gizmodo, which is owned by a company that has extensively used generative AI calling what happened generative AI is such a laugh.
The artist created original art and then did a pass to tweak a few items. A writer using Grammerly does the same thing. We don't call that generative AI
nostr:npub1u4kdjphm3zjuanddjnuf0x2dw4gxleg4n6j3c8equp4w6z8mmxyq0nvxe4 I actually disconnected Grammarly from everything as soon as I found out it was scraping text that it was used on to train their AI model.
nostr:npub1u4kdjphm3zjuanddjnuf0x2dw4gxleg4n6j3c8equp4w6z8mmxyq0nvxe4 nostr:npub1ztkkp35jykmfywgxm27g46gxvzycygpvqqr6q3jn0nrnh2x0sq2qtglanu There's a new company called QuillBot that IS referring to its "writing assistant" as "AI." And not only Grammarly but Notion, Word, Google Docs and even Jetpack are introducing "AI" tools that are supposed to help writers.
In the end, though, they're nothing but crutches—substitutes for writers' own skill and judgment. They don't make you a better writer. Nor are they adequate substitutes for an editor, if your work needs editing.
