AI art is like polyfilla, good for filling gaps, but you can’t make an entire house out of nothing but polyfilla.
I have used nothing but AI art in many of the adventures I’ve run for my players and it’s working great. Perhaps you’re using AI art generators in too superficial a manner, the best generations require a fair bit of attention to detail.
I’ve used gummy bears as tokens and maps thrown together in 30 seconds with Sharpie on wrapping paper and it works fine too. Players generally are pretty happy with whatever you throw at them.
I’d still expect better than that from a product that a major company is expecting you to trade money for.
We’re talking something along the lines of a published book, rather than that, where it’s more acceptable in my opinion.
Wasn’t wizards of the Coast recently in a bunch of hot water for not paying their artists? And now they’re trying to say that they won’t use AI, but they won’t pay the human beings that actually do the work for them either so what is the winning move at this point?
